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  2. 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).

  3. Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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    the work function in physics; the energy required by a photon to remove an electron from the surface of a metal; magnetic flux or electric flux; the cumulative distribution function of the normal distribution in statistics; phenyl functional group in organic chemistry (pseudoelement symbol)

  4. Idiom - Wikipedia

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    Love is blind—an idiom meaning a person who is in love can see no faults or imperfections in the person whom they love [4] In linguistics, idioms are usually presumed to be figures of speech contradicting the principle of compositionality. That compositionality is the key notion for the analysis of idioms emphasized in most accounts of idioms.

  5. List of paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    False positive paradox: A test that is accurate the vast majority of the time could show you have a disease, but the probability that you actually have it could still be tiny. Grice's paradox: Shows that the exact meaning of statements involving conditionals and probabilities is more complicated than may be obvious on casual examination.

  6. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    A fool and his money are soon parted [4] A friend in need (is a friend indeed) A friend to everyone is a friend to no one; A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step; A little learning is a dangerous thing; A leopard cannot change its spots; A man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills; A mill cannot grind with the ...

  7. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...