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  2. Elbow grease - Wikipedia

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    Elbow grease is an idiom for manual labour and/or the process of working hard to accomplish an objective. [1] The earliest evidence of the phrase in print was in 1672. [2] Andrew Marvell, an English metaphysical poet, used the words in a satirical book about English parliament. Marvell wrote: "Two or three brawny Fellows in a Corner, with mere ...

  3. Fool's errand - Wikipedia

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    Hammer and Nails (1977) by Hans Godo Frabel.A "glass hammer" is a highly impractical object which an apprentice might be sent to fetch as part of a fool's errand. A fool's errand prank is a type of practical joke where a newcomer to a group, typically in a workplace context, is given an impossible or nonsensical task by older or more experienced members of the group.

  4. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    The more things change, the more they stay the same; The only disability in life is a bad attitude – Scott Hamilton; 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

  5. OpenThesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The cause for the start of the project was the arrival of OpenOffice.org in 2002, which was missing the thesaurus of its parent, StarOffice, due to its licensing.. OpenThesaurus filled that gap by importing possible synonyms from a freely available German/English dictionary and refining and updating these in crowdsourced work through the use of a web ap

  6. Column: Joe Biden, President Elbow Grease

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    At Joe Biden's 100-day mark, the U.S. once again has a president who makes a robust case for democracy, and for orderly, line-by-line governing.

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  8. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  9. Category:English-language idioms - Wikipedia

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    B. Back-seat driver; Barking up the wrong tree; Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball; Bed of roses; Belling the Cat; Best friends forever