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lump togetherTo put different items or groups together and treat them, or think of them as one single group.Rate it:

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lunatics have taken over the asylumSaid of a situation in which those in charge are incapable of handling their responsibilities, and should rather be put under scrutiny themselves.Rate it:

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make a pug faceTo put on a sorry face, as a pug would look.Rate it:

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make doTo put solution to a matter precariously (limited or inadequate means available).Rate it:

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make someone's teeth itchTo bother or unsettle a person; to put someone on edge.Rate it:

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make yourself at homeA welcoming invitation to a guest to treat a place as if it were their home; a gesture to put someone at ease or make them feel more comfortable, especially in a new or unfamiliar placeRate it:

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make yourself prettyimprove the way you look i.e. get dressed (especially in something nicer than what you are already wearing), put on makeup, brush your hair, brush your teeth, etc; connotes that you are not pretty enough at this moment and that you should improve the way you look; an insult sometimes used intentionally (or unintentionally) to make someone feel inferiorRate it:

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man downTo lose courageRate it:

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marcher à pas de géantTo put on one’s seven-league boots.Rate it:

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mark downTo write a memorandum about.Rate it:

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mark downTo reduce the price of.Rate it:

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mark down asTo come to a conclusion about someone or something; to make a note of one's conclusion about someone or something.Rate it:

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masters of spinPeople who put a different perspective on obvious things.Rate it:

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melt downTo melt a metal, especially so that it can be remade into something else.Rate it:

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melt downTo have a breakdown; to collapse or fail utterly.Rate it:

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mess withTo diss; to put down.Rate it:

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mettez la main à l'œuvrePut your shoulder to the wheel.Rate it:

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mettez un couvert de plusPut another knife and fork (for another guest); Lay for one more.Rate it:

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mettre à la porteTo put at the doorRate it:

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mettre à la questionTo put to the torture.Rate it:

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mettre de l'eau dans son vin(fig.) To come down a peg.Rate it:

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mettre du sel sous la queue d'un oiseauTo put salt on a bird’s tail.Rate it:

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mettre en coupe réglée(lit.) To cut down periodically (of forests); (fig.) To lay regularly under contribution.Rate it:

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mettre la charrette (or, charrue) devant les bœufsTo put the cart before the horse.Rate it:

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mettre la main à la pâteTo put one’s shoulder to the wheel; To set to (a special piece of) work oneself.Rate it:

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mettre un officier aux arrêtsTo put an officer under arrest.Rate it:

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mettre une affaire en trainTo put a thing in hand.Rate it:

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mic dropthe act of someone extending their arm out and intentionally dropping a microphone to emphasize the greatness of what they just put through the microphone; sometimes the words, "mic drop" are also said as someone drops their microphone; said or done as a testament of how good the thing was that came through the microphone right before someone drops the microphoneRate it:

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mihi propositum est c. Inf. (or mihi proposui, ut)the task I have put before myself is...Rate it:

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modest proposalA idea which is especially extreme, unorthodox or distasteful, often put forward in jest.Rate it:

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modos facereto compose, put to music.Rate it:

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move downUsed other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see move,‎ down.Rate it:

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move downto be demotedRate it:

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move downTo demoteRate it:

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move upTo put something higher or further. To promote, put onto a higher level. To raise, put onto a higher place. To put higher on a list.Rate it:

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mow downTo cut down, especially in large numbers.Rate it:

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mow downTo kill or slaughter, or to injure by knocking down, especially in large numbers and in a ruthless manner.Rate it:

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my car has broken downmy car has broken downRate it:

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my way or the highwayYou can do it my way or you can leave - go down the highway (be excluded)Rate it:

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nail downFirm or certain.Rate it:

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nail downTo attach with nails.Rate it:

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narrow downMake more specific.Rate it:

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neck downTo alter by forcing it into a smaller calibre and size.Rate it:

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new wine in old wineskinsNew policies put into established ones.Rate it:

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Nilus praecipitat ex altissimis montibusthe Nile rushes down from very high mountains.Rate it:

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not to put too fine a point on itUsed to apologise for a possibly impolite statement one is making.Rate it:

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note downTo write down, especially hurriedly; to make a note of.Rate it:

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obliquo monte decurrereto run obliquely down the hill.Rate it:

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off the railsWhen you've lost it all, When your world and life is upside down!Rate it:

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omissis pilis gladiis rem gerereto throw down the javelins (pila) and fight with the sword.Rate it:

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