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1600 Pennsylvania Avenue	The residence and offices of the President and certain members of his staff.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue	The current President and the closest members of his administration.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
au-dessus des partis	Expression pour désigner le président de la République française, au dessus des partis et clivages, c’est le chef de toute la nation.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cold comfort	C. 1594, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, act 4, sc. 1.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
eat someone out of house and home	C. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II Scene I.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
from time to time	C. 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 3, sc. 3.	Rate it: (3.00 / 4 votes)
hunger is a good sauce	(dated) Being hungry makes one less concerned about the taste of one's food.1854, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch, Vol. XXVI, Punch Publications Ltd., page 74:His bread and cheese were somewhat dry, to be sure; his ale had become flat, and considerably warmer than was desirable; but hunger is a good sauce, and thirst is not particular.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
il est président d'âge	He is chairman by seniority.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
in the twinkling of an eye	Circa 1598, William Shakespeare, "The Merchant Of Venice".	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
iudicio praeesse	to be president of a court.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
John Henry	One's signature.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
laughing stock	C. 1598, William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, sc. 1.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
le Président de la République n'est pas son cousin	Il se met au-dessus du président de la République, il est très fier, très glorieux.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
le président leva la séance	The chairman dissolved the meeting; The Speaker left the chair.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
leader of the free world	The President of the United States.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
make a virtue of necessity	C. 1595, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 4, sc.1.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mocking is catching	An admonishment to be careful of criticising others, lest the same happen to you.Mocking is Catching was the title of a 1726 song by Henry Carey.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
off one's game	C. 1910, Ralph Henry Barbour, "The Dub" in The New Boy at Hilltop and Other Stories.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
state of the union	Address given by US president annually in January to explain to the country the current status of the US government, and how it relates to the world	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
SVP	Initialism of senior vice president.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sweet william	flower	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
throw dirt enough, and some will stick	If enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at on 14 Oct 06.I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics (1994), p. 10,Archbishop Whately used to say	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
to thine own self be true	The easiest person to deceive is oneself."This above all:to thine own self be true,and it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man." -William Shakespeare	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
today we are all	August 12, 2008:, Robert Barnes, "McCain to Georgian President: "Today, We Are All Georgians"", Washington Post.	Rate it: (4.00 / 2 votes)
traditional american public opinion favors a president who is strong and wrong over one who is meek	A United States President must portray a persona who strong and competent.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
two wrongs don't make a right	(ethics) A wrongful action is not a morally appropriate way to correct or cancel a previous wrongful action.1915, William MacLeod Raine, The Highgrader, ch. 15:"But when it comes to taking what belongs to another	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
White House	The official home and workplace of the President of the United States of America.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)