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not to rewrite other people's wordsThe act of compromising to limiting ones word usage.Rate it:

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notare aliquem ignominia (Cluent. 43. 119)to brand a person with infamy.Rate it:

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nothing succeeds like successPeople who are already successful tend to have additional successes.Rate it:

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nothing to lose but their h'sDescriptive of people in England whose speech is proper or upper-class, but who are poor.Rate it:

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nulla pœna sine legeThe principle that a person shall receive no punishment unless he has committed an offence as explicitly defined in a law.Rate it:

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obscurare alicuius gloriam, laudem, famam (not obscurare aliquem)to render obscure, eclipse a person.Rate it:

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obviam alicui aliquem mittereto send to meet a person.Rate it:

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oculis privare aliquemto deprive a person of his eyes.Rate it:

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oculorum aciem alicui praestringere (also simply praestringere)to dazzle a person.Rate it:

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oculos operire (morienti)to close the eyes of a dying person.Rate it:

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odd duckAn unusual person, especially an individual with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar behavioral characteristics.Rate it:

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odd fishAn unusual thing or eccentric person.Rate it:

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oddballAn eccentric person; goofy.Rate it:

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odds and sodsOrdinary people who lack distinction.Rate it:

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odium alicuius inflammareto kindle hatred in a person's heart; to fill some one with hatred (not implere, vid. sect. IX. 2, note gaudio...).Rate it:

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of all peopleEspecially; more than other people.Rate it:

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of that ilkUsed other than as an idiom. Of that kind; of the same kind of person or thing as the one just mentioned.Rate it:

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off with someone's headUsed to express a desire to kill the person in question.Rate it:

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offendere in aliquo (Mil. 36. 99)to have something to say against a person, to object to him.Rate it:

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offendere, nancisci aliquemto meet, come across a person; to meet casually.Rate it:

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offensionem habereto give offense to, to shock a person (used of things, vid. sect. V. 18).Rate it:

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oh, ye of little faithPointing out one's lack of faith; people sometimes leave the "O" or "Oh" out of the saying when they say itRate it:

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oil trashAn uncultured, rowdy roughneck employed in the petroleum industry, especially a "white trash" person if used negatively.Rate it:

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old boy networkA presumed unacknowledged system of association between childhood friends (especially those at school or university together), used for mutual assistance or favouritism and usually at the exclusion of certain other people; often specifically at the exclusion of womenRate it:

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old fartAn elderly person who holds views that are considered old-fashioned.Rate it:

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old fogeyOld person.Rate it:

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old handA person who is experienced at a certain activity.Rate it:

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old sodUsed other than as an idiom: see old, sod (person).Rate it:

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old womanA person (irrespective of age or sex) who is always complaining about his or her situation.Rate it:

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older adultAn old person.Rate it:

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omnibus artibus aliquem ludificari, eludereto fool a person thoroughly.Rate it:

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on a first-name basisHaving enough familiarity with another person to call them by their first name, as opposed to their surnameRate it:

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on the highstreetIn personRate it:

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on travaille à façon (of small tailors, etc.)People’s own materials made up.Rate it:

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once you go black, you never go backAn expression assuming that once a person of another race gets in a sexual relationship with a black person they won't return to their own race.Rate it:

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one after the otherOne by one; singularly; not occurring all at the same time (of a person or thing).Rate it:

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one and the sameThe same person or thing. Used to emphasize the identity or equivalence of two things.Rate it:

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one anotherUsed of a reciprocal relationship among a group of more than two people or things; compare each other.Rate it:

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one eye lookin at a squirrel and the other eye lookin at a possum.Describing a person with eyes looking in different directions at once. Someone who’s walleyed or has wonky eyes.Rate it:

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one fleshTwo people united by marriage.Rate it:

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one man's gain is another man's loss.Often a benefit to one person comes at a cost to another.Rate it:

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one man's meat is another man's poisonPeople have differing tastes; what pleases one person may displease another.Rate it:

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one man’s rubbish is another man’s treasureWhat is worth nothing to one person may be exactly what another wantsRate it:

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one moment, pleaseUsed to ask a person to wait a moment.Rate it:

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one should be so luckyIt is highly doubtful: indicating that something is not likely to happen to the person specified.Rate it:

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one to talkA person who hypocritically criticizes others for a fault that he/she also has.Rate it:

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one who hesitates is lostA person who spends too much time contemplating what to do may miss a valuable but fleeting opportunity.Rate it:

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one word leads to anotherSaid of a conversation which suddenly develops in a way that was not planned or anticipated by any of the people involved, sometimes in a positive context, but especially of an escalating argument.Rate it:

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one's got to do what one's got to doA person must do what he or she feels obliged to do.Rate it:

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one's word is lawRequests or orders of (a person) should definitely be fulfilled.Rate it:

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