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watch overTo guard and protect.Rate it:
watch this spaceAn indication that a development will follow.Rate it:
watch your mouthWatch what you say; usually said in response to someone cursing; "young man" or "young woman" is often added to the end of the phraseRate it:
watch your mouthdon't swear; admonition mainly addressed to youth when they occasionally became profane, loud, boisterous, or engaged in vulgarities.Rate it:
Watched Pot Never BoilsWhen you are waiting for something but will not happen when you are concentrating,Rate it:
water canUsed other than as an idiom: see water, can.Rate it:
water canAny of several species of Nuphar; the yellow frog lily; so called from the shape of the seed vessel.Rate it:
water downTo dilute; to add water.Rate it:
water downTo make weaker.Rate it:
water downTo simplify or oversimplify; to make easier; to make less difficult.Rate it:
water is exceeding up the headwhen every thing goes wrong and nothing is controlableRate it:
water is wetA statement of the obvious.Rate it:
water over the damAn event or set of events which has already happened and cannot be changed.Rate it:
Water over the DamEvents that are unchangeable, past eventsRate it:
water polosportRate it:
water the love and dreams will grow.LoveRate it:
water to my millWhat energizes you; what stimulates you.Rate it:
water to one's millWhatever energizes or stimulates one.Rate it:
water under the bridgeSomething in the past that cannot be controlled or undone, but must be accepted, forgiven, or forgotten.Rate it:
Water Under the BridgeUsed to signify a life situation that has already happened and cannot be changed; therefore, one should not worry about it. The analogy to water having passed under the bridge means that there is nothing you can do about it since it's already passed, so no reason to dwell on it. What's done is done.Rate it:
watered-downweakened or simplifiedRate it:
watered-downdiluted; containing extra waterRate it:
watered-downDiluted; containing extra water.Rate it:
watered-downWeakened or simplified.Rate it:
watering holeA bar or other local drinking establishment.Rate it:
watering holeA depression in which water collects and where animals come to drink.Rate it:
waterworksTo start crying a lot and/or loudly, either genuinely or in order to get attentionRate it:
watery graveDeath via drowning in a body of water.Rate it:
wave awayTo reject or dismiss with a hand gesture.Rate it:
wave downTo cause to stop by using an arm gesture.Rate it:
wave of the handAs if by magic.Rate it:
wave offTo say goodbye to someone with a waveRate it:
wave offOf a referee, to disallow a field goal with the aforementioned hand gesture.Rate it:
wave the white flagTo indicate to an opposing force that one is surrendering.Rate it:
wave the white flagTo yield, give up, or quit.Rate it:
wax lyricalTo become, or tend to become lyrical.Rate it:
wax lyricalTo talk about something with much interest or excitement.Rate it:
wax poeticTo speak or write verbosely and in an increasingly enthusiastic manner; any discourse which is of an eloquent or poetic nature; similar to ‘wax lyrical’Rate it:
way back whenA time in the distant past.Rate it:
way off baseinaccurateRate it:
way outexcellent, amazingRate it:
way outexitRate it:
way out of a paper bagA minimal level of competence or effectiveness, as used in phrases where one is unable to perform such.Rate it:
way to bury the leadsaid in response to someone who said something but missed an obviously more important/significant or more relevant pointRate it:
way to goAn expression of congratulations, encouragement, or approval.Rate it:
way to go! congrats!Phrase used to congratulate someone informally.Rate it:
wbuAbbreviation of what about you?Rate it:
wbyceiydboWe'll buy your car even if you don't buy ours.Rate it:
WDYMBTInitialism of what do you mean by that?.Rate it:
WDYTInitialism of what do you think?.Rate it:

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