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  2. Cut Me Some Slack - Wikipedia

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    "Cut Me Some Slack" is a rock song by Paul McCartney and former members of Nirvana. Released in 2012 on YouTube and the following year on the soundtrack to Dave Grohl 's documentary film Sound City , the song won the Grammy award for Best Rock Song in 2014.

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    Indeed, Gates emphasized the value of being easy on yourself. “You are not a slacker if you've cut yourself some slack,” he said. “It took me a long time to learn [that].”

  4. Cut Me Some Slack (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Cut Me Some Slack" is a song by Paul McCartney and the surviving members of rock band Nirvana. The phrase may also refer to: "Cut Me Some Slack", a song by Chris Janson from his self-titled debut EP 2013 "Cut Me Some Slack", a song by Status Quo from Backbone, 2019

  5. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Some are more equal than others (George Orwell, Animal Farm) Sometimes we are the student. Sometimes we are the master. And sometimes we are merely the lesson – Jacalyn Smith; Spare the rod and spoil the child; Speak as you find; Speak of the devil and he shall/is sure/will appear; Speak softly and carry a big stick

  6. Slacker - Wikipedia

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    A 1942 US War Production Board propaganda poster equates slacking in the workplace to desertion.. In the United States during World War I, the word "slacker" was commonly used to describe someone who was not participating in the war effort, specifically someone who avoided military service, equivalent to the later term "draft dodger".

  7. 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 ...

  8. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  9. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    See List of English words with disputed usage for words that are used in ways that are deprecated by some usage writers but are condoned by some dictionaries. There may be regional variations in grammar , orthography , and word-use , especially between different English-speaking countries.