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The only way to understand a woman is to love her; The old wooden spoon beats me down; The only way to find a friend is to be one; The pen is mightier than the sword; The pot calling the kettle black; The proof of the pudding is in the eating; The rich get richer and the poor get poorer; The road to Hell is paved with good intentions
Go to the big [place] in the sky To die and go to heaven Informal A place in the afterlife paralleling the deceased's life, such as "Big ranch in the sky". [12] Go home in a box [13] To be shipped to one's birthplace, dead Slang, euphemistic [5] Go out with one's boots on/with a bang/in style To die while doing something enjoyed Informal
(informal) a big mistake, blunder, bad joke or faux pas ("to drop a clanger") (US: to lay an egg) clapped out (informal) worn out (said of an object) cleg horse fly climbing frame a playground apparatus composed of bars for children to climb on [54] (jungle gym in U.S.) clingfilm thin plastic film for wrapping food (US: plastic wrap, Saran wrap ...
"‘Big-back’ is something you say to your friends when they're eating, like, 'Oh, you're such a little big back, you ate four cookies!’” F., a New Jersey 16-year-old, tells Fortune. (The ...
nude; in French, literally, in a natural manner or way (au is the contraction of à le, masculine form of à la). It means "in an unaltered way" and can be used either for people or things. For people, it rather refers to a person who does not use make-up or artificial manners (un entretien au naturel = a backstage interview). For things, it ...
"Dayum is a stylized way of saying damn, usually used to indicate surprise, with humorous intent, rather than in response to injury,” John H McWhorter, an associate linguistics professor at ...
An object behaves pathologically (or, somewhat more broadly used, in a degenerated way) if it either fails to conform to the generic behavior of such objects, fails to satisfy certain context-dependent regularity properties, or simply disobeys mathematical intuition. In many occasions, these can be and often are contradictory requirements ...
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