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  2. List of Latin phrases (I) - Wikipedia

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    The phrase comes from Psalm 36:9: "For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light." in lumine tuo videbimus lumen: in your light we will see the light: Motto of Columbia University New York City, Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School Ghana, Ohio Wesleyan University, University of Fort Hare South Africa in manus tuas commendo ...

  3. Nutshell - Wikipedia

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    A nutshell is the outer shell of a nut. Most nutshells are inedible and are removed before eating the nut meat inside. Most nutshells are inedible and are removed before eating the nut meat inside. It covers and protects the kernel , which may be edible.

  4. English-language idioms - Wikipedia

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    An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).

  5. Idiom - Wikipedia

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    An idiom is a phrase or expression that largely or exclusively carries a figurative or non-literal meaning, rather than making any literal sense. Categorized as formulaic language , an idiomatic expression's meaning is different from the literal meanings of each word inside it. [ 1 ]

  6. Wikipedia:Don't stuff beans up your nose - Wikipedia

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    This page in a nutshell: If you tell people not to do something, your advice may backfire and instead tempt them to do it. In fact, they might have not even thought ...

  7. Idiom dictionary - Wikipedia

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    An idiom dictionary may be a traditional book or expressed in another medium such as a database within software for machine translation.Examples of the genre include Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, which explains traditional allusions and proverbs, and Fowler's Modern English Usage, which was conceived as an idiom dictionary following the completion of the Concise Oxford English ...

  8. Image credits: VastCoconut2609 Cognitively, pessimistic headlines and stories reinforce our negativity bias, which, according to Ruiz-McPherson, "can lead to maladaptive thought patterns ...

  9. Nutshell (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A nutshell is the outer shell of a nut. Nutshell may also refer to: Nut graph, a nutshell paragraph explaining the context of a story; Nutshell (program), a data engine in the early 1980s, succeeded by FileMaker; Nutshell (band), a folk group from Great Britain; Nutshell, a 2016 novel by English author Ian McEwan