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baptism of fireThe first experience of a severe ordeal, especially a first experience of military combatRate it:

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boot campIndoctrination, physical fitness training and basic instruction in service-related subjects for recruits in the Navy and Marine Corps.Rate it:

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boot campAny short, intensive course of training.Rate it:

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boot campA short, intensive, quasi-military program generally aimed at young offenders as an alternative to a jail term.Rate it:

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boot outto kick out, eject, expelRate it:

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boot upTo start a computer using its bootstrap procedure.Rate it:

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brain bucketA protective helmet, as worn, for example, by a motorcyclist, bicyclist, or soldier in combat.Rate it:

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c'est le pot de terre contre le pot de ferIt is a most unequal combat.Rate it:

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car boot salesselling eventsRate it:

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certamen singularesingle combat.Rate it:

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couldn't pour water out of a bootSynonym of couldn't organise a piss-up in a breweryRate it:

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couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heelSynonym of couldn't organise a piss-up in a breweryRate it:

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get the bootTo be voted off a competition in a reality television show.Rate it:

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get the bootTo be dismissed from employment.Rate it:

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give someone the bootTo fire, to sack, to dismiss.Rate it:

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give the bootTo fire, to sack, to dismiss.Rate it:

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haut les mainsOrdre que l’on donne à une personne de lever les bras, les mains ouvertes, pour montrer qu’elle n’a pas d’armes, qu’elle ne veut ni attaquer ni se défendre ; notamment dans un combat, ordre donné à l’adversaire.Rate it:

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have atTo attack; to engage in combat with.Rate it:

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he doesn't know his ass from an old burnt bootThe inference is that he is less than fully informed.Rate it:

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joustA tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.Rate it:

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les deux armées en sont aux mainsThe two armies are in close combat, have come to close quarters.Rate it:

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même combatS'emploie pour souligner la similitude entre deux situations.Rate it:

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pitched battleA hostile engagement involving sustained, full-scale fighting between opposing forces in close combat.Rate it:

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point manIn combat, the soldier who takes point; the soldier who assumes the first and most exposed position in a combat military formation; the lead soldier/unit advancing through hostile or unsecured territory.Rate it:

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povocare aliquem ad certamen singulareto challenge some one to single combat.Rate it:

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put the boot inTo kick a fallen opponent.Rate it:

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put the boot inTo kick someone when they are down.Rate it:

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sideways glanceA silent, somewhat disapproving look from someone with body language to boot, which causes one to be somewhat uncomfortable and a bit in wonderment.Rate it:

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sword and sorceryOf or pertaining to a genre of narratives—including short stories, novels, television shows, films, and computer games—which combines wizardry and other fantastical supernatural elements with violent combat using medieval weaponry..Rate it:

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the boot is on the other footAlternative form of the shoe is on the other footRate it:

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to bootMoreover, on top of that, besides, also.Rate it:

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to bootSome variations in usage remain archaic. Old English, Middle English: to help, in addition.Rate it:

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Walkyrie vendredi, dimanche WalhallaLa gloire au combat mène au paradis des guerriers.Rate it:

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