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make someone a happy pandato make someone happy and contentRate it:

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make someone's blood boilTo cause a person to feel angry or very annoyed, especially in situation in which one cannot fully display that feeling to others.Rate it:

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make someone's blood run coldTo cause a person to feel fear, horror, dread, or strong forboding.Rate it:

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make someone's dayTo make someone happy or to be a source of satisfaction.Rate it:

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make someone's ears sadTo displease the ears of someone; to cause someone to hear music or sounds that are not to their liking.Rate it:

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make someone's jaw dropTo cause someone to be surprised or alarmed.Rate it:

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make someone's skin crawlTo disturb or bother; to frighten or disgust.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 wayan instruction to get out of the way of someone else, usually because they are carrying something and need a clear pathway. Compare with gangway.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 of one's wordSomeone who sticks to their promisesRate 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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marry offto force someone to get married, usually a relative.Rate it:

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matter of life and deathSomething whose outcome could result in either someone's survival or their deathRate it:

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may the force be with youUsed to wish someone luck with a difficult endeavor.Rate it:

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may the Force not be with youUsed to wish someone bad luck.Rate it:

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me threeUsed to express agreement, after someone has already said "me too".Rate it:

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meal ticketSomeone or something that provides income or livelihood, especially as an exploited source.Rate it:

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meet withTo have a meeting with (someone).Rate it:

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mere mortalAn ordinary person; Someone without special abilities or status.Rate it:

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Mess with SomeoneTo provoke someone, to bother someone, to frustrate a personRate 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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Miller of DeeSomeone who lives independently and unattached to others, especially for selfish reasons.Rate it:

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miss the boatTo fail to take advantage of an opportunity; to overlook or be too late to pursue an option or course of action.Rate it:

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miss the boatTo miss out (on something); to be ignorant (of something).Rate it:

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Miss the BoatTo blow your chance, slow to act, to miss out on the chanceRate it:

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missed the boatrefers to something someone didn't do and maybe regrets not doing; often followed by "on that" or "on that one"; can also be said sarcasticallyRate it:

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Monday-morning quarterbackSomeone who criticizes from hindsight.Rate it:

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Money Burns a Hole in Your PocketSomeone who is always eager to spend the money, couldn’t resist from spending the money as soon as you have itRate it:

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mop the floor with someoneTo trounce or defeat thoroughly or in a humiliating manner.Rate it:

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more than someone has had hot dinnersA very large number.Rate it:

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move the goalpostsTo alter the agreed basis, scope, standards or target of a procedure or task during its course, especially to do so to someone's advantage.Rate it:

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mover and shakerSomeone who has power and influence in some field or activity.Rate it:

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mr. all businessSomeone who acts very business-like and serious and focused on the job at hand, either at the moment or all the timeRate it:

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music to someone's earsSome good news; a spoken expression or a sound which is pleasing; a welcome remark or information.Rate it:

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name afterTo intentionally give someone or something the same name or a derivation of the same name as another person, place, or thing.Rate it:

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name forTo intentionally give someone the same name or a derivation of the same name as another person, place, or thing.Rate it:

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Nantucket sleigh rideAn obsolete and dangerous method of whale hunting in which a small boat manned by rowers and a harpooner, or a series of small boats tied together, would be attached to a whale by means of a harpoon and would then be towed by the creature at high speed across the water's surface, until the whale eventually became exhausted.Rate it:

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narrow boatcanal bargeRate it:

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nature callsUsed to indicate that someone feels a need to urinate or defecate.Rate it:

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navem (classem) armare, ornare, instruereto equip a boat, a fleet.Rate it:

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navem capere, intercipere, deprehendereto capture a boat.Rate it:

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navem deducere (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...)to launch a boat.Rate it:

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navem expugnareto board and capture a boat.Rate it:

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navem reficereto repair a boat.Rate it:

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navem rostro percutereto charge, ram a boat.Rate it:

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navem subducere (in aridum)to haul up a boat.Rate it:

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navis onerariaa transport or cargo-boat.Rate it:

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ne'er do wellsomeone who isn't going anywhere in lifeRate it:

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