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young at heartInclined to act in a way or enjoy things that one would expect from someone younger, especially children, teenagers or young adults.Rate it:

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your actions speak so loudly that your words i cannot hearWhen you say you know something yet you fail to act as if that knowledge were true, it shows you don't really know that something to be true; it essentially calls the person a hypocrite since they say one thing and do another; same as the phrase "To know and not to do is not to know"Rate it:

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your eyes are bigger than your bellyTo take more food on one's plate than one can eatRate it:

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your eyes are bigger than your stomachTo take more food on one's plate than one can eat; Also and more often said "your eyes are bigger than your, belly"Rate it:

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your plate is going to be in the mail boxDad to son....if you f*ck up one more time...then, Your plate is in the mail box....you just got tossed out of your parents home !Rate it:

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zero inTo focus one's aim; to zoom in and center on something.Rate it:

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zero in onTo concentrate or focus one's attention on at task.Rate it:

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zero outTo cut off funding for.Rate it:

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zero outTo reduce to zero.Rate it:

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zero outTo fill with zeros, replacing any previous contents.Rate it:

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zig when one should zagTo misstep or err.Rate it:

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zip itBe quiet; the same as zip one's lip.Rate it:

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zip one's lipTo stop talking; to be quiet.Rate it:

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zombie outBecome like a zombie in being listless, vacant, and unresponsive.Rate it:

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zone outTo relax, to chill-out.Rate it:

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zone outTo stop paying attention and think about something else, or to think about nothing.Rate it:

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zonk outTo fall suddenly into a very deep sleep.Rate it:

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zoom outTo focus a zoom lens in order to obtain a smaller image, or a more distant view.Rate it:

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zoom outSo as to make it smaller and possibly less detailed.Rate it:

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אין דין ואין דייןNo one is enforcing law and order.Rate it:

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הפנה לו את הגבto turn one's backRate it:

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ואהבת לרעך כמוךlove your neighbor as yourself, love thy neighbor as thyself; The Golden Rule: the principle that one should treat other people in the manner in which one would want to be treated by them.Rate it:

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ז״לOf blessed memory, may he/she/they rest in peace; used after a reference to one or more deceased people.Rate it:

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טמן ראשו בחולto bury one's head in the sandRate it:

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עוף מפהget out of here, get lostRate it:

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רחוק מהעין, רחוק מהלבout of sight, out of mindRate it:

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“a sentence doesn't come out of nowhere, the writer planted it, watered it, took care of it and youSentenceRate it:

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一國兩制"One Country, Two Systems"Rate it:

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上有老下有小to have both one's aging parents and one's young children to take care of; to be a member of the sandwich generationRate it:

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云云used at the end of a quotation, implying that some words of the same purport are left out; "and so on and so forth"Rate it:

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人人為我，我為人人one for all, all for oneRate it:

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傻傻分不清楚cannot tell apart; cannot tell one thing from another; too silly to distinguishRate it:

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內牛滿面to be so moved or excited that there are tears streaming down one's faceRate it:

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切克鬧check it outRate it:

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命苦不能怨政府，點背不能怨社會One cannot blame for their misfortune with the government and the society.Rate it:

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媽的fuck; to fuck one's motherRate it:

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媽的a word used to express one's angerRate it:

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對……來說from somebody's point of view; in one's opinionRate it:

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愛怎麼著就怎麼著do whatever one likes, do as one wishesRate it:

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有邊讀邊A method people use to pronounce a Chinese character when they do not know its exact pronunciation: one of the components of the character is taken as a phonetic and that pronunciation is used, sometimes erroneously.Rate it:

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沒辦法there is nothing to be done; one can't do anything about itRate it:

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白髮人送黑髮人to see one's child die before oneselfRate it:

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知人知面不知心One may know a person for a long time without understanding his true nature.Rate it:

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笑貧不笑娼the notion in society that it's better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one's scruples than to suffer povertyRate it:

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自絕於人民Used to express that the one's suicide is antipeople.Rate it:

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虛心使人進步，驕傲使人落後Modesty leads to progress, conceit makes one lag behindRate it:

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請等一下one moment, pleaseRate it:

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買一贈一buy one and get one freeRate it:

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走出去Go Global, Go Out; see Go Out policyRate it:

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身在福中不知福to live in plenty without appreciating it; to be oblivious to the good life that one hasRate it:

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