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as the twig is bent, so the tree's inclined	An early influence can have permanent effects.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bent as a nine-bob note	Ostentatiously homosexual	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bent as a nine-bob note	Extremely dishonest or criminally-minded	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bent on	Completely determined; obstinate.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
bent on a splice	About to be married.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
ce que poulain prend en jeunesse, il le continue en vieillesse	“’Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.” [Pope , Moral Essays, i. 149.]	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
chicken scratch	A type of cross-stitch embroidery done on gingham fabric.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
doesn't have two nickels to rub together	Reference an individual whom from all evidence and appearances is badly bent and broken relative to personal finances.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
get bent	Used to dismiss a person or what they are saying, and end the conversation.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
get bent out of shape	To take offense; to become angry, agitated or upset.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
go soak your head	Synonym of get bent	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hell-bent	stubbornly and often recklessly determined; cleaned up version: heck-bent	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hole	A 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: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stuff	A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tuck in	To push the fabric at the bottom of a shirt under the pants.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
urban fabric	The physical aspect of urbanism, emphasizing building types, thoroughfares, open space, frontages, and streetscapes; while excluding without prejudice to this useful term, environmental, functional, economic and sociocultural aspects.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
walk like an Egyptian	To walk with one arm horizontally at the side, with arm bent at the elbow facing up, and the other arm horizontally at the side with arm bent at the elbow facing down.	Rate it: (3.50 / 2 votes)