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"life is a mathematical complex that you gain or lose with your actions."LifeRate it:

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a hail maryLast ditch effort to accomplish something; ie: A simple Hail Mary was thrown to win the football game.Rate it:

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a pig might have a long tale but its tail is always short!A hypocrite always keeps giving excuses & making stories, but his/her supporter & power base are always short! So, if anyone earnestly try to get rid of that hypocrite's tyranny and torcher, that is very much feasible as history supports that hypocrites never win!Rate it:

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aliquem ad suam sententiam perducere or in suam sententiam adducereto win a man over to one's own way of thinking.Rate it:

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animo cadere, deficereto lose courage; to despair.Rate it:

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animum demittereto lose courage; to despair.Rate it:

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argue downTo win an argument, verbal conflict or debate.Rate it:

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avoir la moutarde qui monte au nezto lose one's temperRate it:

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bank nightAn event where patrons are enticed to buy entry tickets into some venue, for example a movie theater, with the anticipation that they will be entered into a drawing to win an amount of money if their ticket is drawn and they are on-site at the time of the winning.Rate it:

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be absorbed byLose one's identity in.Rate it:

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beat outTo win by a narrow margin.Rate it:

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beat someone at their own gameto win against someone who is good, better or best at something (not necessarily a literal game) or in their fieldRate it:

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bite the dustTo quit, or fail or lose any chances of successRate it:

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black outTo lose consciousness; to suffer a blackout.Rate it:

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blank outTo temporarily lose memoryRate it:

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blank outTo become blank.To temporarily lose memoryHe blanked out five minutes into the meeting.I'm blanking out on your name, I'm afraid.Rate it:

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blow a fuseTo lose one's temper; to become enraged.Rate it:

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blow one's topTo be explosively angry. To lose one's temper.Rate it:

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boire un bouillon (lit.)To swallow water (when swimming); To swallow a bitter pill; To lose a lot of money.Rate it:

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break backTo win a game having lost a service game, or during a tiebreak, to win a point against the serve having lost a point while serving.Rate it:

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break evenTo neither gain nor lose money.Rate it:

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break the bankTo win more money than is available to be paid.Rate it:

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bring downTo make a legitimate rulership lose their position of power.Rate it:

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Can't Fight City HallThe under authority person cannot do anything against an administrative system, there is no way to win the struggle against official procedureRate it:

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captatio benevolentiaeUsed rhetorically to seek to win someone's sympathy or support by showing respectRate it:

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causā or iudicio vincereto win a case.Rate it:

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causā or lite cadere (owing to some informality)to lose one's case.Rate it:

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causam or litem amittere, perdereto lose one's case.Rate it:

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causam or litem obtinereto win a case.Rate it:

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changer son cheval borgne contre un aveugleTo lose in an exchange.Rate it:

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charge downTo lose electrical powerRate it:

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choke upTo lose one's power of speech, because of embarrassment, fear etc.Rate it:

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clean upTo make a large profit; to win by a large margin, or to win a large amount, especially in gambling. Also clean house.Rate it:

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come apart at the seamsLose self-control or become extremely upset due to some news, person or an eventRate it:

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come down to earthTo be brought back to reality; to lose one's dreams.Rate it:

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come firstTo win first place in a competition.Rate it:

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come unhingedTo become angered or crazy; to lose control of one's senses or sanity.Rate it:

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coug itTo suddenly lose a contest through reversal of fortune, mistakes, or bad judgment. The phrase is analogous to "blow it", or "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory".Rate it:

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cough upTo lose a competition by one's own mistakes, usually near the end of the contest.Rate it:

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de gradu deici, ut diciturto lose one's composure; to be disconcerted.Rate it:

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de perdidos al ríoin for a penny, in for a pound; there is nothing to loseRate it:

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de statu suo or mentis deici (Att. 16. 15)to lose one's composure; to be disconcerted.Rate it:

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Dead as a DoornailTo lose hope, to become hopeless about successRate it:

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devenir chèvreto get worked up, to lose patienceRate it:

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don't be penny wise and pound foolishDon't be careful when it comes to spending small amounts of money, but careless when spending much larger amounts.Don't focus on minutiae and lose sight of the big picture; don't obsess over tiny inconsequential efficiencies while glaring inefficiencies are going on elsewhere.Rate it:

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don't zig when you should zag, once you find true love.Make the right steps and not the wrong ones when you have someone who loves you and/or you are in a relationship, in order to keep love and not lose it.Rate it:

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drain the swamp when up to one's neck in alligators(idiomatic) When performing a long and complex task, and when you've gotten utterly immersed in secondary and tertiary unexpected tangential subtasks, it's easy to lose sight of the initial objective. This sort of distraction can be particularly problematic if the all-consuming subtask or sub-subtask is not, after all, particularly vital to the original, primary goal, but ends up sucking up time and resources (out of all proportion to its actual importance) only because it seems so urgent.Rate it:

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drift apartTo lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness.Rate it:

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dry upTo become dry; to lose water.Rate it:

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edge outTo win in a contest or a game by a narrow margin of victory.Rate it:

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