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hear through the grapevineTo hear rumors; to learn through friends of friends.Rate it:

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heart pounding widly like a forest fireHis heart was beating very fast like a wildfire spreadingRate it:

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hell hath no fury like a woman scornedA woman will make someone suffer if they reject her.Rate it:

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hen's teethAnything very rare or impossible to obtain is said to be like finding hen’s teeth.Rate it:

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

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hissy fitBout of anger (like a visciously hissing snake)Rate it:

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hit him like a ton of bricksvery hard or severelyRate it:

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hold somebody's handTo guide somebody through the basics or assist with excessively small details.Rate it:

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hold someone's handTo guide somebody through the basics or assist with excessively small details.Rate it:

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holeIn semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.Rate it:

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holeA hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.Rate it:

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hook upTo connect to something like a power supply or a signal source.Rate it:

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how do you like thatSaid in surprise or disappointment.Rate it:

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how do you like them applesDirected jestingly or mockingly at someone who has received surprising information, ridiculing the situation.Rate it:

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hung like a donkeyHaving a large penis.Rate it:

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hung like a horseHaving a large penis.Rate it:

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i am speaking to you from the future....That is what i say to new generations, like my children when i want to explain them something i have learned in my life, and want them to understandRate it:

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I like pieYou are stupid; said as if lowering oneself to an equally moronic state of mind.Rate it:

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I like youIndicates that the speaker likes the interlocutor.Rate it:

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i take itlike saying "I conclude that..."; used to indicate one's rendering of another's action.Rate it:

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I'd like to kiss youUsed to ask to kiss a person.Rate it:

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I'd like to knowPolite requestRate it:

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ich mag dichI like youRate it:

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idiot mittensMittens connected by yarn or string running through one sleeve, along the back and out the other sleeve of a coat, to prevent the mittens becoming lost. Generally worn by small children.Rate it:

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if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nailWith limited tools, single-minded people apply them inappropriately or indiscriminatelyIf a person is familiar with a certain, single subject/has with them a certain, single instrument, they may have a confirmation bias to believe that it is the answer to/involved in everything.Rate it:

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if it quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck and looks like a duck, chances are it's a duckif something has all the attributes and appearances of being a certain thing, the probability exists that it is that thing.Rate it:

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il a un faux air d'avocatHe looks something like a barrister.Rate it:

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il a une mémoire de lièvreHe has a memory like a sieve.Rate it:

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il court comme un verrier déchargéHe runs like a lamplighter. Rate it:

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il est comme l'anguille de melun (more correctly, languille de melun), il crie avant qu'on l'écorcheHe is like the eel of Melun, he cries out before he is hurt.Rate it:

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il est du bois dont on fait les flûtesHe is of an easy, pliable disposition (i.e. like the flexible reeds of which flutes were originally made).Rate it:

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il est planté là comme une borneHe stands there like a post.Rate it:

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il m'a traité en roiHe treated me like a lord.Rate it:

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il mange comme quatreHe eats like an ogre.Rate it:

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il mène grand trainHe lives like a lord.Rate it:

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il n'est rien de tel que d'en avoirThere is nothing like money to make one respected.Rate it:

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il n'y a pas de petit chez soiThere is no place like home; Home is home, be it ever so humble; East, west, home is best.Rate it:

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il ne faut prendre de son ami tout ce qu'on peutFriends are like fiddle-strings, they must not be screwed too tight.Rate it:

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il se mettrait en quatre pour un amiHe would go through fire and water for a friend.Rate it:

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il voudrait avoir le drap et l'argentHe would like to have his cake and eat it too.Rate it:

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ils s'échappèrent qui par la porte, qui par les fenêtresSome escaped through the door, others through the windows.Rate it:

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ils se ressemblent comme deux gouttes d'eauThey are as like as two peas.Rate it:

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ils se sont dit mille injuresThey abused one another like pickpockets.Rate it:

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in for a dime, in for a dollarAmericanised form of in for a penny, in for a pound.1983, Allen Drury, Decision, p. 356:In for a dime, in for a dollar, he thought crazily, and said what he had to say in a voice he forced to stay level and calm.1998, Ellen Miller, Like Being Killed, p. 47:In for a dime, in for a dollar. I whispered to Gerry, Rate it:

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in for a penny, in for a poundExpressing recognition that one must, having started something, see it through to its end, rather than stopping short thereof; accepting that one must Rate it:

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in like flynnSuccessfully got inside a locked room or difficult situation with some effort.Rate it:

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in the same veinIn the same or similar style or manner; Used to suggest something is consistent with, analogous to, or being done or expressed like, or exhibiting a pattern just as, something elseRate it:

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in through the back doorTo introduce a measure in a way which one's opponents will not notice.Rate it:

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instinctIchigo, what's the difference between a king and his horse? I don't mean kiddy shit like "One's a person and one's an animal" or "One has two legs and one has four." If their form, ability and power were exactly the same, why is it that one becomes the king and controls the battle, while the other becomes the horse and carries the king?! There's only one answer. Instinct! In order for identical beings to get stronger and gain the power they need to become king, they must search for more battles and power! They thirst for battle, and live to mercilessly, crush, shred, and slice their enemies! Deep, deep within our body lies the honed instinct to kill, and slaughter our enemies! But you don't have that! You don't have those pure, base instincts! You fight with your brain. You try to defeat your enemies with logic! And it doesn't work! You're trying to cut them with a sheathed sword! That's why you're weaker than me, Ichigo!Rate it:

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it comes and goesSometimes you might feel like nothing is right and everything is against you, but don't give up. Things could change for the good in a matter of seconds.Rate it:

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