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To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world (Chinese proverb) [5] To the victor go the spoils; To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive; Tomorrow is another day; Tomorrow never comes; Too many cooks spoil the broth; Too little, too late; Too much of a good thing; Truth is stranger than fiction
one that starts (as a device to start an engine) transportation dispatcher or elevator (q.v.) dispatcher starting pitcher (baseball) the official who starts a track race. stash (v.) to quit, put an end to ("to stash it") (v.) to store away [old criminals' slang revived in US] (n.) a hiding place, or something (esp. drug or liquor) stored away ...
one who takes care of a building, e.g. a school (US: janitor; cf. s.v. custodian) one put in charge of a farm after eviction of tenant one who takes care of someone or something stopgap government or provisional government: one who takes care of real estate in exchange for rent-free living accommodations * carnival
One might also say that an unlikely event will happen "on the 32nd of the month". To express indefinite postponement, you might say that an event is deferred "to the [Greek] Calends" (see Latin). A less common expression used to point out someone's wishful thinking is Αν η γιαγιά μου είχε καρούλια, θα ήταν ...
A figurative device which involves the substitution of one grammatical form for another. It is commonly used in metaphor; e.g. "to palm someone off" or "to have a good laugh". [2] Compare hypallage. end rhyme end-stopped line A line in poetry that ends in a pause, indicated by a specific punctuation, such as a period or a semicolon. [13 ...
When a loose cannon flogs a dead horse there's the devil to pay: seafaring words in everyday speech. Camden ME: International Marine. ISBN 978-0-07-032877-8. Miller, Charles A. (2003). Ship of state: the nautical metaphors of Thomas Jefferson : with numerous examples by other writers from classical antiquity to the present. Lanham, MD ...
25. All in good time. View the original article to see embedded media. 26. You can't make me be happy about it. View the original article to see embedded media. 27. Must have been a good night's ...
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 ...