Here is what really happens when you press that green button and transmit your tax return. 1  First, we stamp the return with an electronic postmark, and then we send it to the government. 2  Then we both wait 24 to 48 hours for the IRS to accept your return.
get your lines/wires crossed. if two people get their lines crossed, they do not understand each other correctly. Usage notes: When telephone lines get crossed, a mistake is made and you are connected to the wrong person. Somehow we got our lines crossed because I'd got the 23rd written down in my diary and Jenny had the 16th.
a short piece of wire bent so as to bind together papers, sections of a book, or the like, by driving the ends through the sheets and clinching them on the other side. 2. a similar, often U -shaped piece of wire or metal with pointed ends for driving into a surface to hold a hasp, hook, pin, bolt, wire, or the like. verb (used with object), stapled, stapling. 3. to secure or fasten by a staple or staples: to staple three sheets together.