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"never mind your mother sonny.... eat your bleedin' orange"I worked with a man from Foulridge, Lancashire for over 35 years who often used this phrase whenever there was a problem and he wasn't sure of the answer!.. Said the phrase came from a "chap I used to work with in Colne... but he didn't know what it meant either"Rate it:

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abhinc (ante) viginti annos or viginti his annistwenty years ago.Rate it:

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accessio paucorum annorumthe addition of a few years.Rate it:

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aetas consularisthe consular age (43 years).Rate it:

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aetate ingravescentewith the weight, weakness of declining years.Rate it:

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aetate progredientewith advancing years.Rate it:

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aetate provectum esse (not aetate provecta)to be advanced in years.Rate it:

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amplius sunt (quam) viginti anni or viginti annisit is more than twenty years ago.Rate it:

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be a hundred years too earlyTo be so immature and unprepared as to be hopelessly unable to achieve something.Rate it:

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by the way[...] I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years. But this is by the way.Rate it:

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catch-as-catch-canA. 1681, John Fryer, Richard Chiswell, Robert Roberts, Robert White, A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters, Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672 and Finished 1681.Rate it:

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companyAs he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.Rate it:

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day and ageA time period of years or more.Rate it:

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decem annos vixisseto be ten years old.Rate it:

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decimum annum excessisse, egressum esseto be more than ten years old, to have entered on one's eleventh year.Rate it:

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dickyA donkey.Rate it:

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donkey jacketthick garmentRate it:

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donkey workHard, boring, routine work.Rate it:

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donkey's earsA long time.Rate it:

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donkey's yearsA long time.Rate it:

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faire dix ans de travaux forcésTo undergo ten years’ penal servitude.Rate it:

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flutter in the dovecoteI further argued that the principal cause for the political deadlock that persisted for thirty years after the guns fell silent was Israeli intransigence rather than Arab intransigence. The appearance of the first wave of revisionist studies excited a great deal of interest and controversy in the media and more than a flutter in the academic dovecote. — Israel Confronts Its Past.Rate it:

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four score and seven years agoAs an opener, a sometimes sarcastic indicator to indicate a past event being mentioned is particularly important.Rate it:

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four score and seven years ago87 years prior to today.Rate it:

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golden anniversarymarried 50 yearsRate it:

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golden yearsThe period during which someone or something flourishes.Rate it:

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golden yearsOld age, especially the years after one has retired from employment.Rate it:

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heavy as a dead donkeyVery heavy.Rate it:

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Homerus fuit multis annis ante Romam conditamHomer lived many years before the foundation of Rome.Rate it:

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hung like a donkeyHaving a large penis.Rate it:

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I am twenty years oldAlternative form of I'm twenty years oldRate it:

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I'm twenty years oldIndicates that the speaker is aged twenty.Rate it:

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il a trente ans, et cependant il vit aux crochets de sa mèreHe is thirty years old, and yet his mother has to keep him.Rate it:

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il y a quinze ans jour pour jourIt was fifteen years ago to the very day.Rate it:

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in this day and ageIn the current time period of years.Rate it:

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kitchen table softwareEspecially in the early years of personal computers, a set of computer programs developed by an entrepreneurial advanced amateur or self-employed professional computer programmer in his or her own home; software developed by a small business using the services of such programmers.Rate it:

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long ago and far awayIn the distant past, years and years ago.Rate it:

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longius aetate provectum esseto be more advanced in years.Rate it:

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nemesis theoryTheory of animal extinction, suggesting that a sister star to the sun caused extinction of groups of animals such as dinosaurs. The theory holds that the movement of this as yet undiscovered star disrupts the Oort cloud of comets every 26 million years, resulting in the Earth suffering an increased bombardment from comets at these times.Rate it:

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never in a million yearsAbsolutely not.Rate it:

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not in a million yearsAlternative form of never in a million years.Rate it:

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on in yearsOld; advanced in age.Rate it:

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on like Donkey KongAn intensifier used in the same contexts as it's on, go on, and other expressions using the word on, but to express greater emphasis.Rate it:

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puer decem annoruma boy ten years old.Rate 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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quinque annos or sextum (iam) annum abesthe has been absent five years.Rate it:

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roll back the yearsTo produce a sense of nostalgiaRate it:

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royal bumpsA ritual of two or more persons holding another person by the arms and legs, face up, while bumping them repeatedly on the floor. In modern times it is a lighthearted affair, generally performed only on a young person's birthday with the number of bumps corresponding to the person's age in years. Historically it was a hazing.Rate it:

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salad yearsThe inexperienced, youthful prime of an individual, group, organization or entity.Rate it:

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suck donkey ballsTo be terrible, of extremely poor quality.Rate it:

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