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according toAccording to him, every person was to be bought. - Thomas Babington Macaulay.Rate it:

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according toOur zeal should be according to knowledge. - Thomas Sprat.Rate it:

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bottle awayto store up or stock up.Rate it:

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buy outTo purchase the entire stock or extent of something.Rate it:

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buy the rumor, sell the factA phrase often cited by stock traders that explains price declines that occur after an anticipated positive event has happened.Rate it:

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c'est un homme de la vieille rocheHe belongs to the good old stock; He is a man of the old school.Rate it:

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genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspirationThis is a famous quote attributed to Thomas Edison, a famous and prolific American inventor. The idea that hard work is the most important aspect of new inventions existed before Edison gave his quote, however.Rate it:

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il est la risée de tout le mondeHe is the laughing-stock of every one.Rate it:

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John ThomasThe penisRate it:

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Klaatu barada niktoA stock science-fiction phrase, typically used as a code or shibboleth.Rate it:

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laughing stockAn object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed; a butt of sport.Rate it:

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laughing stockC. 1598, William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, sc. 1.Rate it:

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lay downTo stock, store for the future. See also lay by.Rate it:

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lock, stock and barrelA thing in its entirety, with nothing omitted.Rate it:

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Lock, Stock, and BarrelTo mean the whole thingRate it:

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on handAvailable; ready; in stock.Rate it:

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out of stockTemporarily unavailable for sale.Rate it:

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rain chequeAny voucher or note issued by a store to allow a customer to get a special or sale price later if an item is out of stock.Rate it:

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rem pecuariam facere, exercere (cf. Varr R. R. 2. 1)to rear stock.Rate it:

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run downTo reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure.Rate it:

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sell in may and go away"Sell in May and go away" is a popular adage or saying in the stock market that suggests investors should sell their stocks or investments in May and stay out of the market until the end of October. The idea behind this saying is that the stock market tends to experience weaker performance during the summer months, particularly from May to October. This pattern is often attributed to factors such as reduced trading activity, lower corporate earnings reports, or investors' vacation periods.Rate it:

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sell outTo sell all of a product that is in stock.Rate it:

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stand stock stillPaul Travers' Adventures, by Sam T. Clover.Rate it:

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stand stock stillTo stand completely motionless.Rate it:

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stock downTo sow, as ploughed land, with grass seed.Rate it:

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stock phraseA phrase frequently or habitually used by a person or group, and thus associated with them.Rate it:

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stock stillVery still; motionless.Rate it:

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stock upTo swell up.Rate it:

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stock upTo extirpate; to dig up.Rate it:

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stock upTo acquire or increase stock or inventory.Rate it:

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stock up onTo acquire an inventory in anticipation of future need or eventual use.Rate it:

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stuffPaper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.Rate it:

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the hedgebirds raised a strainFrom Thomas Hardy's poem The King's Experiment. It means small song birds in hedges were singing.Rate it:

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throw dirt enough, and some will stickIf 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:

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trade downTo lose value on the stock exchange.Rate it:

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trade upTo gain value on the stock exchange.Rate it:

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wouldn't give two hoots n a holler / ... two hoots and a hollerdefinition: it isn't worth much, or I wouldn't put much stock in it - it is not believable, or wouldn't pay attention to it.Rate it:

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