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spark spread	The difference between the cost of the fuel required to produce a unit of electricity, and the price of that same unit of electricity.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
spark off	To initiate something by providing the necessary conditions.	Rate it: (4.33 / 3 votes)
spark plug	car engine part	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
spark up	to rekindle	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
spark up	to make more exotic or fun	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
spark up	To light up; light a cigarette or start smoking a pipe, bong, etc.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
spark up	To initiate	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
zero hour	The set time for an action, event, vital decision, or decisive change to take place; the hour at which a planned military operation is scheduled	Rate it: (5.00 / 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)
alive and kicking	Healthy; vital; in good health, particularly in opposition to unfavorable circumstances.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
all important	vital	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hold your fire	Do not discharge your weapon. Used originally for weapons needing a spark or lighting of a fuse to ignite gunpowder, now sometimes used to mean any weapon launching a projectile.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
lost footage	A lack of information, a lack of memory relative to vital details in a particular event.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
nullam partem sensus habere	to possess not the least spark of feeling.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
skeleton crew	The minimum number of personnel needed to operate and maintain an item at its most simple operating requirements, such as a ship or business, during an emergency or shut down, and at the same time, to keep vital functions operating.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
universidad de la vida	Por metáfora, sabiduría que se adquiere a través de la experiencia vital.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)