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We only admire Sun Rise and Sun Set, like humans	We only admire humans when they are born and about to leave the world.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
a rising tide lifts all boats	Benefits provided to a few may lead to conditions that are beneficial to all.	Rate it: (4.33 / 3 votes)
hackles rising	An emotional or mental reaction to an irritable situation or person which causes a physical response to ones patience and/or the hair on the back of the one's neck.	Rate it: (4.00 / 4 votes)
winter sun	Used other than as an idiom. sunshine during the winter season.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
stick it where the sun don't shine	a sarcastic way of expressing disgust to someone; akin to telling someone where to go	Rate it: (3.33 / 3 votes)
catch the sun	To become sunburned.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
fly too close to the sun	To become overly ambitious or greedy.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
Nothing New Under the Sun	Everything is almost the same as seen before, everything happening now has happened previously	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
under the sun	In existence.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
catch the sun	To reflect light from the sun.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
in the sun	Exposed to sunlight.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Make Hay While the Sun Shines	To do something beneficial in a tight situation	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
make hay while the sun shines	To act while an opportunity exists; to take action while a situation is favorable.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
moment in the sun	A brief instance in which an otherwise obscure, unremarkable, or humble person draws attention.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
place in the sun	Recognition, fame.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
place in the sun	A favorable position.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
place in the sun	Used other than as an idiom: see place, in the sun.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sun worshipper	One who reveres the sun as a deity.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sun worshipper	A person who enjoys exposure to sunlight; an avid sunbather.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
there is nothing new under the sun	There is nothing truly novel in existence. Every new idea has some sort of precedent or echo from the past.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
what color is the sun in your world	Rhetorical question used to imply that the party addressed is out of touch with reality	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
where the sun doesn't shine	Alternative form of where the sun don't shine	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
winter sun	the off-season holiday market, typically to destinations in North Africa and Southern Europe.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
devil beating his wife	When it is raining but the sun is out	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
nemesis theory	Theory of animal extinction, suggesting that a sister star to the sun caused extinction of groups of animals such as dinosaurs. The theory holds that the movement of this as yet undiscovered star disrupts the Oort cloud of comets every 26 million years, resulting in the Earth suffering an increased bombardment from comets at these times.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
ejusdem generis	A canon of construction holding that when a general term follows a list of particular terms, the general term only applies to things similar to the particular terms. For example, in the list "sun, moon, and other large objects", the phrase "other large objects" only includes celestial bodies, not houses and elephants.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
on the rise	rising; becoming greater in number.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
rear up	To rise up, especially an animal like a horse rising up on its rear legs.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
come out swinging	To display spunk and strength of character, especially when rising above or when fighting back against trouble or adversity.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
die Sonne geht auf	the sun rises	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
solis defectio	an eclipse of the sun.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
ardore solis torreri	to be dried up by the sun's heat.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
c'est le diable qui bat sa femme et qui marie sa fille	It is raining and the sun is shining at the same time.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
daylight	The intensity distribution of light over the visible spectrum generated by the Sun under various conditions or by other light sources intended to simulate natural daylight.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
daylight	The light from the Sun, as opposed to that from any other source.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
montrer le soleil avec un flambeau	To hold a farthing rushlight to the sun; To paint the lily.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the up	rising; becoming greater in number or magnitude.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the up	While the ball is rising.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
oppidum colli impositum est	the town stands on rising ground.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
prendre la balle au bond	Not to miss an opportunity; To take time by the forelock; To make hay while the sun shines.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
se coucher comme les poules	To go to bed with the sun, very early.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sol ardet, urit	the sun burns, scorches.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sol oritur, occidit	the sun rises, sets.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sol(luna) deficit, obscuratur	the sun, moon, is eclipsed.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tempestas cooritur	a storm is rising.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)