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spaghetti western	Nickname for a motion picture produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, depicting a tale of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
karma culture	A form of internalized social anxiety that sharing content will result in embarrassment, whether because the content does not receive enough appreciation, or fear they will not have enough clout to influence.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
culture hero	A mythical character or real person who is renowned as the exemplar of the values or achievements of a society, group, or time period.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
horse opera	A theatrical production, film, or program on radio or television depicting adventures of characters in the American Old West; a western.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
ride shotgun	Probably arose in early-20th-century Western fiction and movies to describe an employee armed with a rifle or shotgun riding next to a stagecoach driver for protection.	Rate it: (5.00 / 2 votes)
throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick	Try the same thing (or similar things) often enough, and, even if the general standard is poor, sometimes one will be successful.2001, And still no one is shouting stop. read in The Kingdom archives at on 02 Nov 06,Many team managers are of the philosophy that if you throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick. They believe that team preparation is all about physical fitness. They run the players into the ground and they believe they will be "flying on the day".2001, Robert McCrum, Let them eat cake, in The Observer 16 Dec 01, read on Guardian Unlimited site at on 02 Nov 06,Australian publishing boomed and in the past 10 years the country's literary culture has undergone a mini golden age, capped by Carey's triumph at the 2001 Booker Prize. As one Australian arts administrator said to me many years ago: 'Listen, mate, if you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick.'2001, Chris Collin, Re: 2-cp speys on The Strathspey Server mailing list archive at on 02 Nov 06,I am finding that "if you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick". It doesn't always work of course (especially on the nights when the class is mostly the beginners), but the class seems to thrive on the challange.2005, Ray Craft (poster on The right scale blog), Fitzhooie and his Burden, read at on 02 Nov 06,Prosecutors everywhere have bad habits of overcharging lots of cases, knowing that if the throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick.2005, Sean Kelleher, Spike Milligan: His part in our downfall in Business 07 Aug 05, read at on 02 Nov 06,As long as there is negligible regulation and enforcement anyone can actually try and do the job...Weak regulation allows the industry to build strategies on full time recruitment. The theory goes: throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick.c2005, Everything You've Learned About Marketing Is Wrong, read on LINC Performance website at on 02 Nov 06,They have the money to continue to believe in the repetition side of the equation. You throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick. But it still isn	Rate it: (3.00 / 4 votes)
if you're not Dutch, you're not much	The Dutch culture is vastly superior to all other cultures in existence.	Rate it: (1.50 / 2 votes)
black man	Black people collectively; black culture.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
good old boy	A friendly, unambitious, relatively uneducated, sometimes racially biased white man who embodies the stereotype of the folksy culture of the rural southern USA.	Rate it: (1.00 / 2 votes)
oat opera	A, film, or novel depicting adventures of characters in the American Old West; a western.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
animi, ingenii cultus (not cultura)	mental culture.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
big in japan	a phrase to describe Western celebrities that have been successful in Japan	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bring it on around jimmy	a phrase off of an old show on TV maybe a country western show? about bringing the wagon around	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
China syndrome	A hypothetical kind of catastrophic failure in which a nuclear reactor melts through the floor of its containment system and penetrates the earth's surface, continuing downward as if (from a Western Hemispheric point of view) traveling through the planet toward China.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Europe	Continental Europe, typically the western portion, and excluding the island nations or the larger Mediterranean islands.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fit as a Mallee bull	to be in good physical health. The Mallee is a major region for Australia's beef production in western Victoria.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Germania quae or Germaniae ea pars quae, ad orientem, occidentem vergit	eastern, western Germany.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
jimmy jack should have been halfway there and back	off of an old country western show	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
litterae iacent, neglectae iacent	scholarship, culture, literature is at a low ebb.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
omni vita atque victu excultum atque expolitum esse (Brut. 25. 95)	to have attained to a high degree of culture.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
optimarum artium studio incensum esse	to be interested in, have a taste for culture.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pre-war	Describing the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sexual minority	LGBT people; those outside of the mainstream of accepted sexual expression or orientation in a given culture	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
soap plant	Any plant of the genus Chlorogalum, endemic to western North America, especially Chlorogalum pomeridianum, the most widespread species.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
white man	White people collectively; White culture.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
wild cherry	The uncultivated cherry tree, Prunus avium, native to Europe and western Asia.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
百花齊放，百家爭鳴	classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period in 475 BC to 221 BC, but adopted as a policy by Mao Zedong to promote progress in the arts and sciences, and the development of a dynamic socialist culture	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)