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a golden key can open any doorSufficient money can accomplish anything.Rate it:

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a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go downAn otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced.1999, Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253335833, page 372,One is known as the "sweetening parable," that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Thus, when the aim is to preach to the people, to guide them along the "bitter," arduous path of upholding burdensome precepts and prohibitions, a tale can lighten the load, make the "medicine" easier "to swallow."2001, Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir, Little, Brown, ISBN 0316736368, page 319,It put some fun into the tedious business of preparing for a presidential debate. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, right?2004, John Hoover, How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive... Without Killing Your Boss, Career Press, ISBN 1564147045, page 11,If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a barrel of laughs can wash down the big pills you might need to swallow.Rate it:

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any press is good pressBeing mentioned in the media is beneficial to the subject because it gets publicity.Rate it:

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argumentum premere (not urgere)to persist in an argument, press a point.Rate it:

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bank upTo press a mound of something against something else.Rate it:

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bear downTo press down on someone.Rate it:

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bridgeA song contained within another song, often demarcated by meter, key, or melody.Rate it:

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broad strokesMajor features or key points; outline.Rate it:

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daylightThe space between platens on a press or similar machinery.Rate it:

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forge aheadpress onRate it:

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forge overTo press on regardless of hindrances.Rate it:

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forty minutes of hellThe NCAA strategy of playing a suffocating full-court press and aggressive offense for the entirety of a game.Rate it:

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fourth estateJournalism or journalists considered as a group; the Press.Rate it:

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fugientibus instareto press the fugitives.Rate it:

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go publicMake public, announce publicly or to the press.Rate it:

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gold ticketThe key to something amazingRate it:

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hard yardsThe key effort in completing a difficult taskRate it:

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here's the thingPrecedes the key point of an explanation.Rate it:

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hunt and peckForm of typing employed by novices in which they search for and strike each and every key one by one on a keyboard, normally using only their index fingers --considered slow and inefficientRate it:

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it's all grist to the millEverything referred to in the present context has some sort of use.1999, Simon Blackburn, Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy (Oxford University Press paperback, ISBN 0199690871), ch. 7 section 6: "KantRate it:

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key downTo relax.Rate it:

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key inenter dataRate it:

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key intoTo grasp; to understand the overall concept of or be acutely aware of the underlying and essential meaning of something; to get it.Rate it:

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key offTo take as a controlling input datum.Rate it:

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key offTo collide with ; or connect to an object with a degree of force and soundRate it:

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key upTo produce nervous tension in.Rate it:

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key upTo raise the pitch of.Rate it:

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key upTo raise off its centering, by driving in the keystone forcibly.Rate it:

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kiss meI informally request that you kiss me—that you touch my lips with your lips or press the lips against, as an expression of love or affection.Rate it:

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latch-key childA child who returns home from school to an empty house and therefore must unlock/unlatch the exterior door with a key, especially a child of working or absent parent.Rate it:

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latch-key childA child who returns home from school to an empty house and therefore must unlock/unlatch the exterior door with a key, especially a child of working or absent parent(s).Rate it:

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nous prendrons la clef des champsWe shall take the key of the street (i.e., run away).Rate it:

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novissimos premereto press the rearguard.Rate it:

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PLOKTAInitialism of press lots of keys to abort.Rate it:

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press aheadTo continue towards an objectiveRate it:

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press chargesTo formally accuse a person of a crime, especially by an ordinary person.Rate it:

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press into serviceTo make someone perform a task or duty, especially one they are not prepared or willing to do; to make something serve a function, especially one it was not designed or intended for.Rate it:

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press onto persist, continue to advanceRate it:

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press outPress from a plastic, as of records.Rate it:

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press outExtinguish by crushing; as a cigar.Rate it:

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press outObtain from a substance, as by mechanical action.Rate it:

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press studsnap fastenerRate it:

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press the fleshTo shake hands and socialize, especially in a political gathering.Rate it:

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press the panic buttonTo start to panicRate it:

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press titsTo initiate a start up sequenceRate it:

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press upan exerciseRate it:

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put the pedal to the metalThe literal meaning is to press the gas pedal to the maximum extent; see our other entry for the figurative meaning this phrase has also come to meanRate it:

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shoot off at the mouthDon't let [presidential press secretary Ron] Ziegler shoot off at the mouth without our knowledge.Rate it:

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skeleton keyA key in a hotel (or used by a thief) that opens all the doors in the premises.Rate it:

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softly softlyDiscreet, low-key, careful.Rate it:

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