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flash backTo recall or remember something; to experience a flashback.Rate it:

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Flash in the PanSomething or someone getting success for a brief time, a person failed to maintain his earlier reputationRate it:

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flavor of the weekA fad; someone or something that is held in esteem or receives attention for a short amount of time.Rate it:

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flick offTo insult by showing them the back of one's fist with the middle finger extended.Rate it:

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flip offTo make a rude or obscene gesture at someone.Rate it:

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float someone's boatTo interest or appeal to someone; to make someone happy.Rate it:

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flog a dead horseTo attempt to get extra work out of a ship's crew during the dead horse period.Rate it:

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flog a dead horseTo attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more.Rate it:

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flower not but flowers petal.Get a good small bit of big thing, matter, incidence.Rate it:

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flush outTo drive out or expose something or someone.Rate it:

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Fly Off the HandleTo get extremely furious and angry, unable to control temperRate it:

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Fly the CoopTo move or leave secretly from a place or situation, to run away or get way or escapeRate it:

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fly-by-nightThis expression has broadened to mean any of these: A person or business that appears and disappears rapidly; Someone who departs or flees at night in order to avoid creditors, law enforcement etc. A dishonest or unreliable person selling something to make a quick profit A transient or traveling salesmen or businessmen, tradesmen; A business that appears to have little or no chance of successRate it:

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follow in someone's footstepsTo follow the same path as someone.Rate it:

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fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on meThis phrase is said in response when someone tries to convince someone to do something again that they have done before that did not work out to their advantage.Rate it:

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foot draggingTo be slow in doing certain things; to not move as fast as someone thinks it should.Rate it:

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Footloose and Fancy-FreeNot involved in any relation with someone, free not having any attachment with something or someone Rate it:

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for old times' sakeAn appeal to the nostalgia of prior experiences to convince someone to do something.Rate it:

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forbidden fruitIllicit pleasure; something that one should not take or get involved with, such as an another person's spouse.Rate it:

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force feedmake someone eatRate it:

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force someone's handBring about a situation which necessitates an agent to act, often causing a plan to be executed prematurely.Rate it:

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fox's socksSomething or someone that is ideal or very pleasing.Rate it:

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frapper un ennemi à terreTo kick someone when they are downRate it:

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freezeDo not move. Used to make someone stopRate it:

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French kissTo give someone a French kiss.Rate it:

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fresh out ofOf someone who has recently left one stage of life to begin another.Rate it:

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frohes Schaffena greeting sometimes used towards someone who is working, most often when leaving themRate it:

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from stem to sternFrom front to back; from one end to the other end; entirely, fully.Rate it:

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from stem to sternOver the full length of a ship or boat, from the front end of the vessel to the back end.Rate it:

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from the get-goFrom the very beginning; from the outset; immediately upon starting.Rate it:

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fuck offGo away! Get lost!Rate it:

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fuck someone overto exploit somebody in a way which results in an advantage to oneself, at the cost of the other party gaining a considerable disadvantage.Rate it:

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fuck someone's brains outTo sexually penetrate (or be penetrated) in a voracious but pleasurable manner.Rate it:

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fucked oversimple past tense and past participle of fuck someone overRate it:

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fudge the factsSomeone who complains constantly but does not tell the straight story.Rate it:

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full circleA full turn back to the original direction or orientation.By extension, of a discussion, a point arrived at which is the same point at which it began; the point at which effort has resulted in no progress.Rate it:

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full marksTo exclaim complete satisfaction with someone's efforts.Rate it:

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full of crapin reference to someone who speaks or writes nonsense or untruthsRate it:

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full of himself/herselfThe self-centered individual awash with a smattering of ego expresses an all-knowing, all familiar, par excellence in the extreme. If someone said this about themselves, you could say that they are full of themselves, or "He's full of himself."Rate it:

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Full of Hot AirSomeone who talks nonsense and nothing anything of value and importanceRate it:

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funk outTo back out in a cowardly fashion.Rate it:

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fuss overTo be overly attentive to someone or something.Rate it:

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gain onTo get the better of; to have the advantage of.Rate it:

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gain sympathymake someone feel compassion(sympathy) about youRate it:

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gang up onTo join together in a gang in order to overpower someone else.Rate it:

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GBTWInitialism of get back to work.Rate it:

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gentleman of the back doorA sodomite.Rate it:

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getOffspring.Rate it:

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getLineage.Rate it:

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getA difficult return or block of a shot.Rate it:

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