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cry someone a river	To try to obtain the sympathy of another person by complaining or sniveling.	Rate it: (5.00 / 2 votes)
cry someone a river	To weep profusely or excessively in the presence of another person.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
cry me a river	An admonishment, reminder, chiding, demand or ejaculation addressed to an individual whom evinces sadness. seemingly suffers disappointment, disillusionment, distress, and renders a general resentment toward the people in this world with a constant flow of tears.	Rate it: (4.00 / 4 votes)
denial ain't just a river in Egypt	Alternative form of denial is not a river in Egypt	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
denial is not a river in Egypt	Used to point out that somebody is in a state of psychological denial.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
don't cross your bridge until you arrive at the river!	Your reminder George, was very wise: You advised that I not count my money regarding sale of wheelbarrows until we were down to ten count out of the one hundred previously in the stockroomL	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
over the river and through the woods	Used other than as an idiom: see over, the, river, and, through, the, woods.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
over the river and through the woods	To lose one's mind.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
over the river and through the woods	To be lost.(idiomatic, figuratively) To lose one's mind.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
over the river and through the woods	Trying to achieve a particular task, often with difficulty.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pass the river	To die.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sell down the river	To betray, especially in a manner which causes serious difficulty for the one betrayed.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
trouble in river city	An expression to indicate there is trouble somewhere/ Often said There's trouble in River City or "There's" is omitted, for short	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
up the river	To prison.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
up the river	Up The River To Sing Sing Prison	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
you can't step in the same river twice	It is not possible to repeat past experiences, as time changes all things.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
aquam ex flumine derivare	to draw off water from a river.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
pontem facere in flumine	to build a bridge over a river.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
body of water	Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, lake or a bay.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
crossing the bar	Navigating the dangerous wave action encountered at delta junction of river mouth and ocean reaches.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
feed into	To be a tributary of another river or waterway.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
flowing like the gonga.	Gonga is a Indian river.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
flumen agros inundat	the river floods the fields.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
flumen extra ripas diffluit	the river is over its banks, is in flood.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
flumen imbribus auctum	a river swollen by the rain.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
flumen ponte iungere	to build a bridge over a river.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
flumen super ripas effunditur	the river is over its banks, is in flood.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
flumen vado transire	to wade across, to ford a river.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
inicere pontem	to build a bridge over a river.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pons est in flumine	there is a bridge over the river.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
riverboat queen	a large paddle steamer operating on the Mississippi river.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
suck out	To win a hand, usually on a showdown, by hitting a card on the turn or river to make a better hand than one's opponent, even though one had a significantly inferior hand on the flop.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)