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bolt bucketA machine, especially an automobile. Implies that the machine is clunky or unreliable.Rate it:

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Bolt from the BlueSome situation or condition, which is quite shocking, unexpected or happens all of a suddenRate it:

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shoot one's boltTo use up one's resources, especially a singular one or one not readily restored.Rate it:

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bring one's arse to an anchorTo sit down.Rate it:

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drop anchorTo release the anchor of a ship or boat, allowing it to fall to the bed of a body of water and thereby securing the vessel in place.Rate it:

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drop anchorTo defecate.Rate it:

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let go an anchor to the windward of the lawTo keep within the letter of the law.Rate it:

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bitter endThat part of an anchor cable which is abaft the bitts and thus remains onboard when a ship is riding at anchor.Rate it:

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ad ancoram consistereto ride at anchor.Rate it:

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ad ancoras deligarito ride at anchor.Rate it:

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ancoram (ancoras) tollereto weigh anchor, sail.Rate it:

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ancoras iacereto drop anchor.Rate it:

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ancoras tollereto weigh anchor.Rate it:

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c'est sa planche de salutIt is his last hope, his sheet-anchor.Rate it:

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coup de foudrebolt from the blue; love at first sightRate it:

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de fou juge briève (brève) sentenceA fool’s bolt is soon shot.Rate it:

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fores obserareto bolt the door.Rate it:

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in ancoris esse, stare, consistereto ride at anchor.Rate it:

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lefty loosey, righty tightyA mnemonic used to recall the direction a spanner must turn to either tighten or loosen a bolt.Rate it:

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mettre la clef sous la porteTo run away from one’s creditors; “To bolt.”Rate it:

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moor upTo fix or secure in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the likeRate it:

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moor upTo cast anchor or become fastened.Rate it:

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navem (naves) solvereto weigh anchor, sail.Rate it:

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solvere (B. G. 4. 28)to weigh anchor, sail.Rate it:

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up and downVertical; perpendicular; said of the cable when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse hole, and the cable is taut.Rate it:

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起錨to raise anchor; to weigh anchorRate it:

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