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turnabout is fair playIt is allowable to retaliate against an enemy's dirty tricks by using the same ones against him.Rate it:

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twenty to the dozenvery fast, fluently (i.e. "to say twenty words to another's dozen")Rate it:

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twisted truthThoughtfully slyly lie. Confusing and uphelding the words/matter said on account of others faith though it's not true but slyly faltering facts.Rate it:

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two can play at that gameAlternative form of two can play that gameRate it:

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two can play that gameThe tactics and/or strategies of an enemy can be used against him.Rate it:

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two can play this gameAlternative form of two can play that gameRate it:

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verba compositawell-arranged words.Rate it:

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verba parere, fingere, facereto invent, form words.Rate it:

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verbal phrasetwo or more words that when put together express a thought or ideaRate it:

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verbal phrasetwo or more words that when put together express a thought or ideaRate it:

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verbis abundantem esse, abundareto be rich in words.Rate it:

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verborum aucupium or captatiominute, pedantic carping at words.Rate it:

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voilà un nom à coucher dehors (avec un billet de logement dans la poche)That’s a name too ugly for words; That’s an outlandish name if you like.Rate it:

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vous avez la mainIt’s your turn to play (at cards).Rate it:

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vous avez le déIt’s your turn to play (at dice).Rate it:

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vous vous payez de motsYou are the dupe of words; You are taken in by empty words.Rate it:

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war of wordsA heated exchange of threatening or inflammatory statements.Rate it:

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when the cat's away the mice will playIn the absence of a controlling entity, subordinates will take advantage of circumstances.Rate it:

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When the Cat's Away, the Mice will PlayWithout the presence of authority, people will do as they please even of breaking the rulesRate it:

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who writes this stuffA rhetorical question commenting on the writing of a book, play, movie, etc.Rate it:

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whymsileratinga combination of two words; whymsical and acceleratingRate it:

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withused as a connective, to indicate that your with another person, or can be used to connect two wordsRate it:

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woman of few wordsA woman who either does not speak much or speaks only for a brief period of time.Rate it:

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word for wordusing exactly the same words, verbatimRate it:

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word playA technique in which the nature of the words used become part of the subject of the work, such as puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names.Rate it:

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word playUsed other than as an idiom: see word, play.Rate it:

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word-for-wordUsing exactly the same words (as were originally used).Rate it:

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words fail someoneOf a person: to be incapable of describing something with words, especially due to fear, shock, or surprise.Rate it:

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words of one syllableSimple, clear, straightforward language; blunt language.Rate it:

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work the roomTo interact with one's audience, taking queues from its reactions and adapting one's performance or words to elicit the audience's attention and enthusiasm.Rate it:

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X's and O'sThe fundamental elements of a play.Rate it:

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you can't win if you don't playUnless or until you don't play , you cannot win .Rate it:

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your actions speak so loudly that your words i cannot hearWhen you say you know something yet you fail to act as if that knowledge were true, it shows you don't really know that something to be true; it essentially calls the person a hypocrite since they say one thing and do another; same as the phrase "To know and not to do is not to know"Rate it:

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也就是說in other words; that is to say; so; thusRate it:

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云云used at the end of a quotation, implying that some words of the same purport are left out; "and so on and so forth"Rate it:

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小狗懶擦鞋a phrase that literally means "little dog lazy to wipe shoes" but is actually a phrase which contains words with similar sounds to the five profanities in Cantonese: 屌, 鳩, 撚, 柒, 閪.Rate it:

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