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put the brakes onTo cease to perform one's current activity or to decrease one's level of activity.Rate it:

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put this one to bedWorking unceasingly on a challenge or problem. Spending oodles of time and money on a particular project.Rate it:

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put throughTo pass the ball to (someone) giving them a one-on-one scoring opportunity.Rate it:

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put up one's dukesPrepare to fight; literally, to raise your fists.Rate it:

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put up or shut upDesist from saying something unless one is able to prove it.Rate it:

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put wool over one's eyesdeceive someoneRate it:

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put words in somebody's mouthTo attribute to somebody something he or she did not say; to claim inaccurately that somebody said or intended something.Rate it:

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put words in someone's mouthTo say or imply that someone has said something which he or she did not precisely or directly say.Rate it:

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putty in someone's handsOne who is readily manipulated or controlled by another person.Rate it:

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puxar a brasa para a minha sardinhato toot one's own hornRate it:

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QT (also QT and qt)Mysteriously; silently; no one knows.Rate it:

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qu'à cela ne tienneDo not let that be any objection; Never mind that.Rate it:

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qu'il n'en soit plus questionDo not bother me about it any more; Let bygones be bygones. Rate it:

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quack like a duckTo appear to be exactly what one is.Rate it:

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quaestionem poscere (Fin. 2. 1. 1)to get a question submitted to one.Rate it:

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quake in one's bootsTo be frightened, scared, or nervous.Rate it:

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Quaker gunA nonfunctional imitation of a gun or of a piece of artillery, typically made of wood and usually intended to deceive enemy forces into overestimating one's available firepower.Rate it:

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quand il n'y en a plus, il y en a encoreThe thing is inexhaustible; It is easy to get more.Rate it:

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quand l'arbre est tombé tout le monde court aux branchesWhen the tree falls every one goeth to it with his hatchet.Rate it:

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quand on a de l'esprit, on se tire d'affaireWhen one has brains, one gets out of any difficulty.Rate it:

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quand on compte sur les souliers d'un mort on risque de marcher pieds nusIt’s an ill thing to wait for dead men’s shoes; He pulls with a long rope that waits for another’s death.Rate it:

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quand on prend du galon on n'en saurait trop prendreAs well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb; One cannot make too much of a favourable opportunity.Rate it:

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quasi praeteriens, in transitu attingere aliquidto make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu).Rate it:

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queen beeA reproductive female (especially the only one) in a colony of bees.Rate it:

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queen elizabeth iiOnly two affectionate eyes of one woman, were able to make the entire planet go to tears - – Queen Elizabeth IIRate it:

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queer one's pitchTo make a task more difficult for the speaker.Rate it:

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quelque sot le feraitOne would be a fool to do that.Rate it:

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quenchcoalA person or thing that undermines religious zeal; hence a heartless, uncaring person with respect to religion.Rate it:

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quero verSaid of something one is confident that will not happen.Rate it:

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qui a compagnon a maîtreOne is often obliged to give way to the wishes of those with whom one is associated.Rate it:

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qui a terme ne doit rienNo one is obliged to pay before a debt is due.Rate it:

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qui deux choses chasse, ni l'une ni l'autre ne prendBetween two stools one falls to the ground.Rate it:

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qui dort dînesleep allows one to go without foodRate it:

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qui leges scribit (not legum lator)a legislator.Rate it:

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qui n'a pas argent en bourse, ait miel en boucheHe who has not silver in his purse should have honey on his tongue.Rate it:

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qui n'entend qu'une cloche n'entend qu'un sonOne should hear both sides of a question.Rate it:

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qui ne demande rien n'a rienLose nothing for want of asking; If you do not ask, you will not get.Rate it:

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qui ne sait pas être fou n'est pas sageHe is not wise who does not sometimes make merry; It takes a wise man to make a fool.Rate it:

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qui porte épée porte paixOne sword keeps another in its scabbard; Si vis pacem, para bellum.Rate it:

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qui refuse muse“He who will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.”Rate it:

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qui se fait bête, le loup le mangeIf one is too confiding, one is imposed upon. Rate it:

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qui veut la fin veut les moyensWhere there is a will there is a way; If you want the end you must not stick at the means.Rate it:

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quick-and-dirtyDone or constructed in a hasty, approximate, temporarily adequate manner, but not exact, fully formed, or reliable for a long period of time.Rate it:

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quick-fireHaving one thing coming rapidly after another.Rate it:

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quiet as a mouseVery quiet, so as to not be heardRate it:

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quinque anni sunt or sextus annus est, cum te non vidiI have not seen you for five years.Rate it:

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quod aliquam (magnam) dubitationem habet (Leg. Agr. 1. 4. 11)a thing which is rather (very) dubious.Rate it:

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quod ante pedes est or positum est, non videreto fail to see what lies before one.Rate it:

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quod googleWhich one should Google.Rate it:

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quod reliquum est vitaethe rest of one's life.Rate it:

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