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il sortirent tambour battant, mèche alluméeThey went out with all the honours of war.Rate it:

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ils en sont venus aux gros motsThey came to high words.Rate it:

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ils se sont dit de gros motsThey came to high words; They insulted (slanged) one another.Rate it:

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In a NutshellTo make something clear in few words, to say something briefly and to the pointRate it:

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in layman's termsExplaining something in simple words.Rate it:

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in other wordsStated or interpreted another way; introduces an explanation.Rate it:

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inanis verborum sonitusmere words; empty sound.Rate it:

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ipsissima verbaThe actual words.Rate it:

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jamais beau parler n'écorcha la langueFair words never did harm; Civility costs nothing.Rate it:

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je vis de bonne soupe et non de beau langage“Fair words butter no parsnips.”Rate it:

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kick buttThe words describe an action. The words can also describe a command for immediate physical action. Frequently used by military officers, sports team coaches and other leaders. Variations include street talk.Rate it:

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lip serviceEmpty talk; words absent of action or intention.Rate it:

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loaded languagelanguage using words, set phrases or idioms that have strong positive or negative connotations beyond their ordinary definitions.Rate it:

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make love, not warA hippie anti-war slogan encouraging love and peace.Rate it:

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man of few wordsA man who doesn't speak much, or speaks only for a short period of time.Rate it:

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man-of-warA jellyfish-like marine cnidarian of the family Physaliidae, a Portuguese man-of-war or Pacific man-of-war.Rate it:

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man-of-warUsed other than as an idiom: see man, of, war. (A military man.)Rate it:

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man-of-warA man of war bird, a magnificent frigatebird.Rate it:

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man-of-warAn armed naval vessel, primarily one armed with cannon and propelled by sails.Rate it:

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mark my wordsListen to me; used before a statement one wishes to emphasize.Rate it:

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mene mene tekel upharsinWords written by a mysterious hand on the wall of Belshazzar's palace, and interpreted by Daniel as predicting the doom of the king and his dynasty.Rate 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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mihi quaedam dicenda sunt de hac reI have a few words to say on this.Rate it:

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Mince WordsTo softly use words so no one is offended, not to be completely honestRate it:

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mince wordsTo restrain oneself in a conversation by withholding some comments or using euphemisms.Rate it:

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mind one's languageTo be careful to speak properly, especially concerning the avoidance of swear wordsRate it:

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mind youUsed to draw attention to adjacent words.Rate it:

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minitari (minari) alicui mortem, crucem et tormenta, bellumto threaten some one with death, crucifixion, torture, war.Rate it:

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mit anderen Wortenin other wordsRate it:

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mittere ad bellumto send to the war.Rate it:

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navis longaa man-of-war.Rate it:

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never fight a land war in AsiaDon't bite off more than you can chew; don't start a fight that is too big to win.Rate it:

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new townA town built to address housing shortages post World War II.Rate it:

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nomina enodare or verborum origines quaerere, indagareto give the etymological explanation of words.Rate it:

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non - aphabetical orderTo place words in Z-A AlphabeticalRate it:

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nonnulla praedīcamI wish to say a few words in preface.Rate it:

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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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omni studio in (ad) bellum incumbereto carry on a war energetically.Rate it:

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omnia bello flagrant or ardent (Fam. 4. 1. 2)everywhere the torch of war is flaming.Rate it:

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one must fight the beast of brutality, to defend one’s stance on neutralityWhen war is thrust upon a nation by another belligerent nation, a neutral nation suffers a dilemma of the collective state conscience.Rate it:

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one small step for man, one giant leap for mankindWords spoken by Neil Armstrong when taking the first steps on the moon.Rate it:

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or words to that effectused to indicate a paraphrase or the chance of an error in the details of reported speech.Rate it:

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oratio in aures influithis words find an easy hearing, are listened to with pleasure.Rate it:

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ordo verborum (Or. 63. 214)the order of words.Rate it:

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paper tigerA seemingly fierce or powerful person, country or organisation without the ability to back up their words; apparently powerful but actually ineffective.Rate it:

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pauca dicere (pauca verba dicere only of the orator)to say only a few words.Rate it:

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Pen is Mightier than the SwordWords have more power than war, to influence with ones words not with fightRate it:

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pissing warAn often vicious conflict in which combatants contend for dominance over certain territory.Rate it:

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pissing warAn immature dispute over some trivial matter.Rate it:

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play on wordsA pun, or similar humorous use of language such as a double entendre.Rate it:

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