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omnem luctum plane abstergere	to banish all sad thoughts.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
plane, aperte dicere	to speak openly, straightforwardly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
paper chase	The effort to earn a diploma, college degree, personal certificate or license (as the necessary paperwork required [documents, assignments, forms, reports, applications] amasses a literal trail of paper)	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
way out of a paper bag	A minimal level of competence or effectiveness, as used in phrases where one is unable to perform such.	Rate it: (4.33 / 6 votes)
paper flower	A plant, Psilostrophe cooperi, and its flower.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
paper tiger	A seemingly fierce or powerful person, country or organisation without the ability to back up their words; apparently powerful but actually ineffective.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
hang paper	To write a bad check.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on paper	Used other than as an idiom: see on, paper.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on paper	Based on debatable inference; in theory.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
paper	Wallpaper.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
paper	Money.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
paper	A written document, generally shorter than a book , in particular one written for the Government.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
paper	A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting .	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
paper	A sheet material used for writing on or printing on , usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
paper	A newspaper or anything used as such .	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
paper	Wrapping paper.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
paper flower	A plant, Bougainvillea glabra, and its flower head, so called for the papery bracts.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
paper flower	A plant, the peach-leaved bellflower, Campanula persicifolia, and its flower.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
paper flower	Used other than as an idiom: see paper, flower.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
paper over	To superficially hide or disguise without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
paper trail	A written record, history, or collection of evidence.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
paper trail	The records left by a person or organization in the course of activities.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
punched paper	A thing looking good to one person, but bad to another.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on board	Even when I am on board the plane, I can never feel secure that my luggage is, too.	Rate it: (5.00 / 2 votes)
toiletpaperphobia	the fear of running out of toilet paper	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
against the grain	To sand or plane a piece of wood parallel or nearly parallel to the fibers such that splinters forming ahead of the tool originate below the cutting surface.	Rate it: (3.50 / 2 votes)
dead tree edition	Paper version of a publication that can be found online.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
deadstick landing	When a pilot lands a plane after the engine has died; a landing lacking any propulsion control.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
cash on the barrelhead	Money in the form of paper currency or coins, paid immediately at the time and place of a transaction.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cheat sheet	A sheet of paper containing notes used to assist on a test.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
dub out	To fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a series of small projections.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
jug ears	Ears whose plane is markedly not parallel to the plane of the head.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
make it rain	to throw a substantial amount of paper money so that it falls on a crowd, audience, performer, or group of performers, often as a way to show off one's wealth	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Monopoly money	Bills of foreign currency which are brightly colored or printed on flimsy paper.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Monopoly money	Play money printed on paper, especially differently colored denominations of the board game Monopoly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
necesito papel higiénico	I need toilet paper	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
noughts and crosses	pen and paper game	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pink slime	An undesirable pink-colored microbial mass occurring in the slurry used in making paper. [from 1951]	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Punchboard	A book-size laminated paper 1'/2 inch thick board with 25 to 200 drilled holes in surface. Holes contain 'accordion-fold', numbered kite-paper which when 'punched-out of board' with small PUNCH-tool may reveal a 'winning-chance number': Winning Numbers posted on board. Variety of Valuable prizes is predetermined by cost of a single 'PUNCH': Win! Box Candy, jewelry, trinkets, appliances, tools, flashlights et al:	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Rain Check	A ticket stub that allows an individual to attend an event on behalf of a canceled one; a paper piece that allows someone to buy a sold-out product at discounted or sale price later on	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
rake	The direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stuff	Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
wheels up	More of a question than an answer: Does this mean when the plane is directed to depart, when the wheels leave the tarmac, or when the wheels are retracted into the body of the plane?	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)