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tits-upLying down face up.Rate it:

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to be honest with youAn expression to be avoided at all costs for progressive, professionally oriented, skilled communicative individuals, lilly- white honest 'movers and shakers'!Rate it:

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tomber sur le nezto fall flat on one's faceRate it:

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turkey slapThe act of hitting someone in the face with one's penis.Rate it:

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turn awayTo rotate the body or head so as not to face someone or something.Rate it:

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une face de carêmeA sad, pale, woe-begone face (like that of one who has fasted all Lent).Rate it:

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until one is blue in the faceForever; for a hopelessly long time.Rate it:

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up topWhen someone says "up top" to you they are asking you to give them a high five--to tapthe palm of your hand against the palm of their same hand over your heads as you face each other; same as saying "high five" or "give me a high five"; a gesture of agreement or celebration, like between winning team membersRate it:

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vous ne voyez point votre chapeau? mais il vous crève les yeux!You do not see your hat? Why, it stares you in the face! (it’s just under your nose).Rate it:

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vous vous y casserez le nez1. You will fall on your face. 2. You will knock up against something. 3. You will fail in that.Rate it:

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wake up and smell the coffeeTo face reality and stop deluding oneself.Rate it:

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wash upTo wash one's hands and/or face, often around mealtimes.Rate it:

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wave the white flagTo indicate to an opposing force that one is surrendering.Rate it:

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wave the white flagTo yield, give up, or quit.Rate it:

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when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.When life gives you lemons, make lemonade is a proverbial phrase used to encourage optimism and a positive can-do attitude in the face of adversity or misfortune.Rate it:

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white as a sheetVery white or pale, as if suffering from shock.Rate it:

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white as driven snowextremely white; totally white (of a color).Rate it:

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white as snowVery white.Rate it:

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white coat hypertensionElevated blood pressure measured by a medical practitioner and deemed to result from the patient's emotional response to the medical environment.Rate it:

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White ElephantA useless object, an expensive but useless possessionRate it:

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white elephantAn ornament etc that is unwanted or is a financial burden; an unprofitable investment.Rate it:

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white elephantAn albino elephant.Rate it:

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white elephantSomething you have but uselessRate it:

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white goodsfridges, washing machines, etcRate it:

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white hatA white hat hacker.Rate it:

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white holeA theoretically possible but physically highly unlikely singularity which would emit matter and energy; the antithesis of a black hole.Rate it:

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White HouseThe official home and workplace of the President of the United States of America.Rate it:

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White HouseThe US presidency and its administration.Rate it:

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white lieA deliberate, untrue statement which does no harm or is intended to produce a favorable result.Rate it:

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white lieAn lie that is said for not hurting others with a clean mindRate it:

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White Lightnin,Illegally Brewed, High-Percentage/Grain Alcohol Spirits, Whiskey, Moonshine Liquor, Surrepticously Distributed by 'BootleggersRate it:

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white magicMagic derived from good or benign forces, as distinct from evil or malevolent forces; or magic performed with the intention of doing good or giving aid.Rate it:

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white manA Caucasian man; a European.Rate it:

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white manWhite people collectively; White culture.Rate it:

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white manUsed other than as an idiom: see white, man.Rate it:

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white marriageAn unconsummated marriage.Rate it:

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white on riceA descriptive analogy of closeness. See like white on rice.Rate it:

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white outTo hide an error or other material on a surface by covering it with correcting fluid.Rate it:

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white rabbitWhite rabbit is the first thing one must say, usually 3 times, on the first day of each month.Rate it:

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white rideranother name for "Conquest/Pestilence", one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.Rate it:

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white saviorAn embedded reflex by those from unquestioned privilege to outline the solution to Black social struggles and systemic racism.Rate it:

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white sheepUsed other than as an idiom: see white, sheep.Rate it:

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white sheepa conformist; an unusual or conventional personRate it:

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white sheepa disliked person; one who is disfavoredRate it:

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white spiritsolventRate it:

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white trashA poorly educated white person with low moral and social standards and low social status.Rate it:

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white trasheryThe state or characteristic of being, resembling, or behaving in the manner of white trash.Rate it:

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white weddingA wedding in which the bride is still a virgin.Rate it:

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white whaleA goal/object which one seeks obsessivelyRate it:

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white-knuckleCausing fear, excitement, apprehension, suspense, or nervousness.Rate it:

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