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with friends like these who needs enemies	An expression indicating that one's close associates prove more adversarial than one's opponents.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
with friends like those who needs enemies	Alternative form of with friends like these who needs enemies?	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
keep your friends close, and your enemies closer	One should be on their toes and alert of their surroundings if malicious people are around, to ensure such people can't wreak havoc in one's life.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
divide and conquer	A combination of political, military and economic strategies that aim to gain and maintain power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.(computing) Applied to various algorithms, such as quicksort, that solve a problem by splitting it recursively into smaller problems until all of the remaining problems are trivial.(as imperative, proverb) In order to rule securely, don't allow alliances of your enemies.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
ferro viam facere (per confertos hostes)	to cut one's way (through the enemies' ranks).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
instinct	Ichigo, what's the difference between a king and his horse? I don't mean kiddy shit like "One's a person and one's an animal" or "One has two legs and one has four." If their form, ability and power were exactly the same, why is it that one becomes the king and controls the battle, while the other becomes the horse and carries the king?! There's only one answer. Instinct! In order for identical beings to get stronger and gain the power they need to become king, they must search for more battles and power! They thirst for battle, and live to mercilessly, crush, shred, and slice their enemies! Deep, deep within our body lies the honed instinct to kill, and slaughter our enemies! But you don't have that! You don't have those pure, base instincts! You fight with your brain. You try to defeat your enemies with logic! And it doesn't work! You're trying to cut them with a sheathed sword! That's why you're weaker than me, Ichigo!	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
the British are coming	A warning that enemies are about and a battle is about to begin.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
the world is not in need of opinions but prayers.	The world is not in need of opinions but prayers. No opinion has changed the world so far, but a prayer can change everything, what is more powerful than praying to God? Don't argue with your enemies, don't argue with your friends, your children, your husband, your thoughts, your dreams, just pray.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tilt at windmills	To attack imaginary enemies.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tilting at windmills	Tilting at windmills is an English idiom which means "attacking imaginary enemies", originating from Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)