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feed a cold, starve a feverEating more will cure the common cold, and eating less will cure a fever.1887, J. H. Whelan, "The Treatment of Colds.", The Practitioner, vol. 38, pg. 180:"Feed a cold, starve a fever." There is a deal of wisdom in the first part of this advice. A person with a catarrh should take an abundance of light nutritious food, and some light wine, but avoid spirits, and above all tobacco.1968, Katinka Loeser, The Archers at Home, publ. Atheneum, New York, pg. 60:I have a cold. 'Feed a cold, starve a fever.' You certainly know that.2009, Shelly Reuben, Tabula Rasa, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 015101079X, pg. 60:They say feed a cold, starve a fever, but they don't tell you what to do when you got both, so I figured scrambled eggs, tea, and toast.Rate it:

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feed out ofTo feed from.Rate it:

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feel downTo feel depressed or unhappy.Rate it:

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feel outTo try to ascertain a person's point of view, or the nature of a situation, by cautious and subtle means.Rate it:

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feets don't fail me nowwhen you really need to get somewhere, you don't want your feet to fail and not get you thereRate it:

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ferret outTo discover something after searching.Rate it:

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few sandwiches short of a picnicExhibiting disquiet or unsoundness of mind; not sane; mad.Rate it:

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ficher le campto get the hell out; to get out of here; to bugger off; to scarperRate it:

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fidem servare (opp. fallere)to keep one's word (not tenere).Rate it:

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fides (vid. sect. IX. 10, note fides has six...) conciditcredit is going down.Rate it:

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fides aliquem deficere coepita man's credit begins to go down.Rate it:

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fifth wheelWhen there are two couples and a fifth person who is not in a couple, the extra person is known as a fifth wheel - a situation in which may feel uncomfortable to some peopleRate it:

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fight a losing battleTo continue to wage war when it is clear that one is not going to win.Rate it:

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fight it outTo fight until a decisive and conclusive result is reached.Rate it:

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figure outTo come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.Rate it:

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file downTo reduce the size of something by filing.Rate it:

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file outTo exit in one or more single file lines.Rate it:

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fill outTo complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.Rate it:

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fill outTo have one's physique expand with maturity or with surplus weight.Rate it:

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fill outTo fill up; to make full.Rate it:

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film outTo transfer images or animation from videotape or digital files to a traditional celluloid film print.Rate it:

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filter downOf a liquid; to move slowly down to lower substrate levels.Rate it:

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filter downOf information, or resources; to move slowly down to lower levels of an organisation, or population.Rate it:

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filter outTo selectively remove part of something.Rate it:

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find outlearnRate it:

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find outTo discover, as by asking or exploring.Rate it:

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fine words butter no parsnipsTalking about doing something does not get it done.Rate it:

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fink outTo avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner.Rate it:

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fire outto shoot outRate it:

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first among equalsA person or position that if formally equivalent to others in a group, but is superior in some attribute.Rate it:

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fish or cut baitTo choose between taking action now, or forgoing the opportunity and putting that energy into another endeavor; to decide; do something constructive, but don't just do nothingRate it:

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fish outTo deplete the supply of fish in a given body of water.Rate it:

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fish out of waterA person in unfamiliar, and often uncomfortable, surroundings.Rate it:

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Fish Out of WaterTo feel uncomfortable and out of place while adjusting in a place or situationRate it:

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fit outTo provide a thing, a group, a person or oneself with requisites; to kit out.Rate it:

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fit upTo furnish with suitable things; to prepare; to fit out.Rate it:

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fixing toGoing to, preparing to, about to, planning on doing, with the implication that it will not happen or be done immediately, but some time in the near future; can be used conditionally.Rate it:

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fizzle outTo lose excitement, to become less exciting.Rate it:

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flag downUse a flag or some kind of signal to get the attention of someone.Rate it:

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flake outTo fall asleep from exhaustion.Rate it:

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flake outTo flake or be flaky: to prove unreliable; to abandon or desert.Rate it:

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flame outburn up, fire up, flame up, flare upRate it:

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flame outOf processes and equipment involving combustion, to fail due to extinction of flame.Rate it:

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flame outTo fail, usually spectacularly.Rate it:

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flare upTo burst out suddenly, as in anger.Rate it:

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flat outCompletely out of something such as; energy, food or money. Basically to be out of any kind of product.Rate it:

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flat outAt top speed.Rate it:

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flat outBluntly, no holds barred.Rate it:

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flatten outTo make flat.Rate it:

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flatten outTo become more even.Rate it:

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