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second banana	A comedian who plays a secondary or supporting role, especially as straight man and traditionally in vaudeville or burlesque theatre.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
bury the lead	To begin a story with details of secondary importance to the reader while postponing more essential points or facts.	Rate it: (4.50 / 2 votes)
second banana	A person who serves in a supporting, secondary, or subsidiary capacity; an assistant.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
drain the swamp when up to one's neck in alligators	(idiomatic) When performing a long and complex task, and when you've gotten utterly immersed in secondary and tertiary unexpected tangential subtasks, it's easy to lose sight of the initial objective. This sort of distraction can be particularly problematic if the all-consuming subtask or sub-subtask is not, after all, particularly vital to the original, primary goal, but ends up sucking up time and resources (out of all proportion to its actual importance) only because it seems so urgent.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
pop off	To release flatulence, in most cases, in short rapid succession.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
double up	To have a secondary use.	Rate it: (2.00 / 2 votes)
Take a Backseat	To be at a secondary position or to be at a level of inferiority as compared to someone else	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
bit on the side	Secondary lover, mistress.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
c'est le serpent qui se mord la queue	C’est un cercle vicieux, une succession de problèmes dont on ne voit pas la fin.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
commutationes temporum quadripartitae	the succession of the four seasons.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
continuatio seriesque rerum, ut alia ex alia nexa et omnes inter se aptae colligataeque sint (N. D. 1. 4. 9)	systematic succession, concatenation.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
double tap	A tactical shooting technique of pulling the trigger of a weapon twice in quick succession to deliver two shots to the same target zone.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
drive-by media	Media that provides broad or misleading statements in quick succession without context or explanation.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hand down	To transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
if it's not one thing it's another	Many problems are happening simultaneously or in close succession.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il s'agit bien de cela (ironic.)	That is quite a secondary consideration.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
knock-on effect	A secondary, often unintended effect.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the bounce	Consecutively, in succession.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the heels of	Closely following; in succession immediately after.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the trot	successively, in succession; one after the other.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
one by one	Individually in succession; one at a time.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
one-upmanship	A succession of instances of outdoing a competitor.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pub-crawl	to visit, and drink in, numerous pubs or bars in succession.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
shower with	To give to someone an abundance of; to give someone something many times in quick succession.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
spin off	To create as a by-product or a secondary derived work.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tail wagging the dog	A minor or secondary part of something controlling the whole.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
um atrás do outro	Many, in quick succession.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
vicissitudines dierum noctiumque	the succession of day and night.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)