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deathbed conversionAn abrupt, last-minute change in one's professed beliefs, principles, or point of view in order to escape a serious threat or to increase one's chances of success.Rate it:

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deathbed conversionAcceptance of religious belief immediately before one dies, typically in a state of anxiety or fear of the insecurity of what will happen to one in and after death.Rate it:

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débander l'arc ne guérit pas la plaieTo cease doing mischief does not undo the harm one has done.Rate it:

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déchirer quelqu'un à belles dentsTo criticise some one mercilessly; To tear a person’s reputation to shreds.Rate it:

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decimum aetatis annum ingredito be entering on one's tenth year.Rate it:

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decimum annum excessisse, egressum esseto be more than ten years old, to have entered on one's eleventh year.Rate it:

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deep pocketsAn ample supply of money, especially money which one is willing to spend; the possessor of such money.Rate it:

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deferri, deici aliquoto be driven out of one's course; to drift.Rate it:

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défiler (or, dire) son chapeletTo say all one has to say.Rate it:

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deicere aliquem de saxo Tarpeioto throw some one down the Tarpeian rock.Rate it:

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deliver the goodsTo keep one's promises.Rate it:

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déménager à la cloche de bois (fam.)To shoot the moon; To leave a house without paying one’s rent or one’s creditors.Rate it:

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denial ain't just a river in EgyptAlternative form of denial is not a river in EgyptRate it:

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denial is not a river in EgyptUsed to point out that somebody is in a state of psychological denial.Rate it:

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deponere magistratumto give up, lay down office (usually at the end of one's term of office).Rate it:

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der Reihe nachone by one, in turnRate it:

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describere aliquem (Cael. 20. 50)to allude to a person or thing (not alludere).Rate it:

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desk jockeyOne who spends his or her time seated at a desk; especially one who is more concerned with procedure, paperwork, or administration than with its ultimate goal or practical consequence.Rate it:

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desperare suis rebusto despair of one's position.Rate it:

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deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerumGod is the Creator of the world.Rate it:

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deus mundum aedificavit, fabricatus est, effecit (not creavit)God made the world.Rate it:

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deux avis valent mieux qu'untwo heads are better than oneRate it:

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deux avis valent mieux qu'unTwo heads are better than one.Rate it:

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devil's advocateOne who debates from a view which they may not actually hold, usually to determine its validity, or simply for the sake of argument.Rate it:

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dextram alicui porrigere, dareto give one's right hand to some one.Rate it:

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dicendo augere, amplificare aliquid (opp. dicendo extenuare aliquid)to lend lustre to a subject by one's description.Rate it:

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dicere contra aliquem or aliquid (not contradicere alicui)to contradict some one.Rate it:

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dicta dicere in aliquemto make jokes on a person.Rate it:

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dictated but not readDictated, as to a secretary or stenographer, but not proofread by the person who dictated the text so annotated.Rate it:

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die in harnessTo continue to work until the day of one's death.Rate it:

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die the way one livedTo die because of or after doing something characteristic of the interlocutor.Rate it:

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diem dicere alicuito summon some one to appear on a given day; to accuse a person.Rate it:

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diem ex die ducere, differreto put off from one day to another.Rate it:

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dies unus, alter, plures intercesserantone, two, several days had passed, intervened.Rate it:

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dieu nous garde d'un homme qui n'a qu'une affaireGod save us from the man of one idea.Rate it:

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dig inTo make a burst of hard work.Rate it:

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dig in one's heelsTo act in a determined manner by firmly maintaining one's beliefs, demands, situation, etc. in the face of opposition.Rate it:

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dig one's own graveTo behave in a way that is likely to have future negative effects on oneself.Rate it:

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dignitatem suam tueri, defendere, retinere, obtinereto guard, maintain one's dignity.Rate it:

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dignitati suae servire, consulereto be careful of one's dignity.Rate it:

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diligentem esse in retinendis officiisto be exact, punctual in the performance of one's duty.Rate it:

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DILLIGAFFAcronym of does it look like I give a flying fuck?.Rate it:

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dine outTo have dinner away from one's house, usually at a restaurant.Rate it:

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dip intoTo spend some of one's savingsRate it:

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diplomatic fluAn illness feigned by one or more government officials or other public figures as an excuse for an absence really based on political reasons.Rate it:

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dire tantôt blanc, tantôt noirTo say first one thing and then another.Rate it:

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dirigere or referre aliquid ad aliquam remto measure something by the standard of something else; to make something one's criterion.Rate it:

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dirty laundryUnflattering facts or questionable activities that one wants to remain secret, but which some other may use to blackmail with.Rate it:

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dirty wordThe name of a topic that a person does not like to hear or discuss.Rate it:

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dirty wordA word that is considered vulgar, not necessarily sexual in nature.Rate it:

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