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.
Crossed the Bar âCrossing the Barâ is a term generally used by the military/ex-military and more specifically the Royal Navy to politely inform and advise of a person that has died. The term is taken from a poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson as meaning to cross the âsandbarâ between the tide or river of life, with its outgoing âflood,â and the ocean that lies beyond death, the âboundless deep,â to which we return. The âPilotâ being God.