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bring overTo cause to change allegiance or point of view.Rate it:

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bring owls to athensTo undertake a pointless venture, one that is redundant, unnecessary, superfluous, or highly uneconomical.Rate it:

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bring owls to athensPerhaps we have not been sufficiently aware that talking about access and its implications in Scandinavia is like bringing owls to Athens. — Herbert Burkert.Rate it:

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bring owls to athensForgive me, then, for bringing owls to Athens as a thanks-offering. — Goethe, in a letter to Wilhelm von Humboldt.Rate it:

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bring owls to athensWho brings owls to Athens? — Euelpides, in Aristophanes' Birds.Rate it:

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bring roundTo resuscitate; to cause to regain consciousness.Rate it:

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bring roundTo bring something when coming.Rate it:

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bring sand to the beachto take something that is plentiful at the destination, such as a date to a party with plenty of mixed company.Rate it:

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bring toTo turn into the wind; to check the course of by trimming the sails so as to counteract each other.Rate it:

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bring toTo make something equal to a different amount.Rate it:

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bring toTo restore consciousness.Rate it:

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bring to a boilTo heat something until it reaches its boiling point.Rate it:

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bring to bearTo apply; to employ something to achieve an intended effect.Rate it:

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bring to bearTo aim a weapon at a target.Rate it:

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bring to heelTo be forced to obey.Rate it:

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bring to heelTo force someone to obey.Rate it:

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bring to justiceTo cause a person alleged to have committed criminal acts to be brought to trial on the offenses.Rate it:

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bring to lightTo expose or disclose something that was hidden or unknown.Rate it:

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bring to the tableTo provide a suggestion.Rate it:

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bring togetherTo cause people to do something together; to bring about togetherness.Rate it:

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bring upTo bring from a lower position to a higher position.Rate it:

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bring upTo mention.Rate it:

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bring upTo turn on power or start, as of a machine.Rate it:

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bring upTo raise children.Rate it:

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bring uprearRate it:

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bring up againstTo cause someone to have to solve a problem or deal with an issue.Rate it:

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bring up the rearTo be last in a moving line of people, to walk or go behind others in a line.Rate it:

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bring up toTo raise so that it reaches a particular standard or minimum requirement.Rate it:

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bring uponTo cause to befall.Rate it:

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brush downUsed other than as an idiom: see brush, down. To remove something with a brush, or ones hands using a downward brushing motion.Rate it:

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brush downTo straighten up one's clothes and to tidy up one's appearance.Rate it:

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bucket downTo rain heavily.Rate it:

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buckle downTo put forth the needed effort; to focus; become serious; apply oneself.Rate it:

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buff outto bring something to proper shape by removing or masking minor defects, by straightening out the residual shortcomings.Rate it:

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build downIn solitaire card games, to place a card over another card of higher value.Rate it:

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burn downTo burn to nothing.Rate it:

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burn downTo completely burn, so that nothing remains.Rate it:

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bust outto bring out, to take outRate it:

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button-downOf a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie.Rate it:

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button-downConservative; conventional; unimaginative.Rate it:

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button-downSerious; staid; businesslike.Rate it:

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buttoned-downAlternative form of button-down.Rate it:

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buttoned-downAlternative form of button-downRate it:

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by the wayHis mother will be coming for dinner tomorrow, and, by the way, she volunteered to bring dessert.Rate it:

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BYOWInitialism of bring your own wine.Rate it:

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c'est elle qui porte la culotteShe is mistress in this house (not her husband); The grey mare is the better horse.Rate it:

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c'est un château de cartes que cette maisonThis is a jerry-built house.Rate it:

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c'est un pilier d'estaminet (or, de café)He is a public-house lounger, a pub-loafer.Rate it:

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calamitatem, pestem inferre alicuito bring mishap, ruin on a person.Rate it:

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call downTo pray for; to request from God.Rate it:

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