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pro viribus or pro mea parte	as well as I can; to the best of my ability.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
pro re (nata), pro tempore	according to circumstances.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pro tempore et pro re	according to circumstances.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
ulcisci aliquem pro aliquo or pro aliqua re	to revenge oneself on another for a thing or on some one's behalf.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pro forma	For the sake of form only.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
quid pro quo	(law) This for that; giving something to receive something else; something equivalent; something in return.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
quid pro quo	Something understood as something else; an equivocation.	Rate it: (5.00 / 2 votes)
verbum pro verbo reddere	to translate literally, word for word (not verbo tenus).	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
argumentum immortalitatis afferre (not pro)	to quote an argument in favour of immortality.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bellum pro religionibus susceptum	a religious war.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
causam dicere pro aliquo	to defend a person.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
ex, pro merito	according to a man's deserts.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
falsa (pro veris) dicere	to tell lies.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
gratiam alicui referre (meritam, debitam) pro aliqua re	to show gratitude (in one's acts).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
gratias alicui agere pro aliqua re	to thank a person (in words).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hoc est a (pro) me	this goes to prove what I say.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
ignem excitare (pro Mur. 25. 51)	to make up, stir up a fire.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
illud pro certo affirmare licet	this much I can vouch for.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mortem occumbere pro patria	to die for one's country.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
nullum periculum recusare pro	to avoid no risk in order to...	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pro aris et focis pugnare, certare, dimicare	to fight for hearth and home.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pro consule in Ciliciam proficisci	to go to Cilicia as pro-consul.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pro lege dicere	to support a bill (before the people).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pro maleficiis beneficia reddere	to return good for evil.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pro testimonio dicere	to state as evidence.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pro victimis homines immolare	to sacrifice human victims.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pro viribus eniti et laborare, ut	to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pro virili parte (cf. sect. V. 22.)	as well as I can; to the best of my ability.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
quid pro quo	an equal exchange.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
quid pro quo	(law) A form of sexual discrimination where a person implicitly or explicitly offers something in exchange for sexual favours.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
res ipsa (pro me apud te) loquitur	the matter speaks for itself.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sanguinem suum pro patria effundere or profundere	to shed one's blood for one's fatherland.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
satisfacere alicui pro (de) iniuriis	to give some one satisfaction for an injury.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
se morti offerre pro salute patriae	to sacrifice oneself for one's country.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sponsionem facere, sponsorem esse pro aliquo	to be security for some one.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stationes agere pro portis	to be on duty before the gates.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
testimonium dicere pro aliquo	to give evidence on some one's behalf.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
ulcisci aliquem (pro aliqua re)	to punish some one.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
vitam profundere pro patria	to sacrifice oneself for one's country.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro	In times of change or upheaval, anyone can make a legitimate business from their own personal vision, however different it may be.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
you scratch my back and i'll scratch yours	If you do me a favor then I will do you a favor; quid pro quo.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
throw dirt enough, and some will stick	If enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at on 14 Oct 06.I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics (1994), p. 10,Archbishop Whately used to say	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
又紅又專	pro-communism and having professional skill	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
flipside	A necessary consequence or corollary of something; especially one seen as opposite, or as pro versus con.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
gente de chape	Gente distinguida, de pro, de alcurnia.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)