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

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“a sentence doesn't come out of nowhere, the writer planted it, watered it, took care of it and youSentenceRate it:

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common-or-gardenOrdinary, standard.Rate it:

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everything in the garden is rosyThings are going well; everything is fine.Rate it:

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common or garden varietyOrdinary, standard. Nothing special.Rate it:

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common-and-gardenOrdinary, standard.Rate it:

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everything is rosy in the gardenAlternative form of everything in the garden is rosyRate it:

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garden peasvegetablesRate it:

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garden varietyOrdinary, common, or unexceptional.Rate it:

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lady gardenA woman's pubic hair, and the area around it.Rate it:

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rose gardenA garden devoted primarily to roses.Rate it:

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rose gardenA highly desirable situation.Rate it:

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skunk at a garden partyWithin a group, someone who is unwelcome and actively avoided.Rate it:

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do not pass go, do not collect £200A phrase telling someone to pursue a path directly without deviations.Rate it:

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faith will move mountainsBelief in oneself (read sometimes as belief in God) can help one overcome any hurdle in life's path.Rate it:

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payback's a bitchUsually a complete sentence as an interjection: I am amused that someone got their revenge on you...but you certainly had it coming.Rate it:

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stop someone in his tracksTo prevent someone from continuing along a path or way, literal or figurative, he has begun going along.Rate it:

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מה טובו אוהליך יעקב משכנותיך ישראלHow good are your tents O Jacob, your dwellings O Israel. The opening sentence of a prayer when entering the synagogue in the morning.Rate it:

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do not pass go, do not collect $200A phrase telling someone to pursue a path directly without deviations.Rate it:

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keep it between the ditchesTo stay out of trouble or follow a righteous (God-fearing) path.Rate it:

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a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go downAn otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced.1999, Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253335833, page 372,One is known as the "sweetening parable," that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Thus, when the aim is to preach to the people, to guide them along the "bitter," arduous path of upholding burdensome precepts and prohibitions, a tale can lighten the load, make the "medicine" easier "to swallow."2001, Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir, Little, Brown, ISBN 0316736368, page 319,It put some fun into the tedious business of preparing for a presidential debate. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, right?2004, John Hoover, How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive... Without Killing Your Boss, Career Press, ISBN 1564147045, page 11,If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a barrel of laughs can wash down the big pills you might need to swallow.Rate it:

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cross someone's pathTo meet by chance.Rate it:

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yellow brick roadA proverbial path to a Promised Land of one's hopes and dreams.Rate it:

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payback's a bitchUsually a complete sentence: I will get revenge when you least expect it.Rate it:

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barrow manA man under sentence of transportation; alluding to the convicts at Woolwich, who are principally employed in wheeling barrows full of brick or dirt.Rate it:

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"i don't have to listen to your footsteps, the path you follow does not lead to my destination."DestinationRate it:

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"if i told a herd of oxen they are on the wrong path, would they believe me?"WrongRate it:

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a virtute discedere or deficereto deviate from the path of virtue.Rate it:

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amber gamblerA driver of a road vehicle who accelerates when the traffic lights change from green to amber (instead of stopping, as required by law), gambling that no vehicle will cross his or her path; a driver who starts off when the traffic lights show red and amber together, but not yet green.Rate it:

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aquam ducere per hortumto bring a stream of water through the garden.Rate it:

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bridle pathtrack suitable for horse ridingRate it:

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burn one's bridgesTo destroy one's path, connections, reputation, opportunities, etc.Rate it:

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capitis absolvere aliquemto repeal a death-sentence passed on a person.Rate it:

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compositio, structura verborumthe structure of the sentence.Rate it:

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dead endA path or strategy that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end.Rate it:

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death spiralThe situation or course of action of one who is on a path toward some sort of inevitable catastrophic failure.Rate it:

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e olhe láUsed to end a sentence, indicates that a small improvement is already more than expected and one should not hope for more.Rate it:

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el burro delante, para que no se espanteA phrase used as a reminder that, in a grammatically correct sentence, yo doesn't go at the beginning of a phrase mentioning other subjects.Rate it:

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em i ?Is the shortest two word question sentence in the English languageRate it:

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enuntiatio, enuntiatum, sententiathe sentence, proposition.Rate it:

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ex quo tempore or simply ex quosince the time that, since (at the beginning of a sentence).Rate it:

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follow in someone's footstepsTo follow the same path as someone.Rate it:

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garden pathShort for garden path sentence.Rate it:

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garden pathUsed other than as an idiom: see garden, path.Rate it:

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growth pathCareer path, the growth of an employee in organisation.Rate it:

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handwriting on the wallAlternative form of writing on the wall. A divine prediction or sentence to fate.Rate it:

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happy trailsan expression wishing someone a good journey (typically on a road or path); short for 'happy trails to you'; a way of saying goodbyeRate it:

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hi i’m existingI would be existing in the moment of saying that sentence.Rate it:

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holding patternA path taken by an aircraft waiting to land.Rate it:

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honestatem deserereto deviate from the path of virtue.Rate it:

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