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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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"a man motivated by a woman doesn't rest until his dreams come true."DreamRate it:

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'tis an ill wind that blows no goodSimilar to "every cloud has a silver lining" or "one man's gain is another's loss". This expression appeared in John Heywood's 1546 proverb collection and remains so well known that it is often shortened. (www.dictionary.com}Rate it:

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(The terms for the different ages of man are infans, puer, adulescens, iuvenis, senior, senex, grandis natu.)Rate it:

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à bon entendeur demi-mot suffit (or, salut)A word to the wise is enough; Verbum sap.Rate it:

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à bon entendeur salutA word to the wise is enough. Verb. sap. Rate it:

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à bon entendeur, salutA word to the wise is enough; Verbum sap.Rate it:

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à chacun son dûGive the devil his due; Every man is worth his hire.Rate it:

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a drowning man will clutch at a strawWhen hope is slipping, desperation grasps at the slightest chanceRate it:

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à dure enclume marteau de plumeThe strokes of adversity find the wise man unmoved.Rate it:

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a good man is hard to findMen who make good husbands or workers are rare.Rate it:

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à l'impossible nul n'est tenuThere is no doing impossibilities; No living man all things can.Rate it:

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à la cour du roi chacun pour soiEvery man for himself and the devil take the hindmost. Rate it:

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a load of old codswallopA load of rubbish. Completely untrue.Rate it:

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a man hasn’t lost when he’s fallen down, he’s lost when he’s too weak to get back upit explains that giving up is losingRate it:

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a man is known by the company he keepsPeople are similar in character to their friends.Rate it:

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a man salvaDe un modo seguro o confiado; con seguridad o con resultado seguro, sin miedo al castigo o al fracaso.Rate it:

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a man salvaCon gran abundancia.Rate it:

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a man's home is his castle(US) a proverbial expression of personal privacy and securityRate it:

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a man/woman after your own hearta man or woman who likes the same things or has the same opinions as youRate it:

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à parti pris point de conseilAdvice is useless when a man’s mind is made up.Rate it:

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a pristina consuetudine deflectereto give up old customs.Rate it:

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a rey muerto, rey puestoout with the old, in with the newRate it:

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a vetere consuetudine discedereto give up old customs.Rate it:

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à vieille mule frein doréOld women have the finest clothes.Rate it:

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able to get a word in edgewiseAble to participate in the conversation; able to interrupt another person's monologue.Rate it:

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actum est de meit's all over with me; I'm a lost man.Rate it:

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ad unum omnes perieruntthey perished to a man.Rate it:

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ad verbum transferre, exprimereto translate literally, word for word (not verbo tenus).Rate it:

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admodum adulescens, senexstill quote a young (old) man.Rate it:

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adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunthe is a young man of great promise.Rate it:

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aemulatio dupliciter dicitur, ut et in laude et in vitio hoc nomen sitthe word aemulatio is employed with two meanings, in a good and a bad sense.Rate it:

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aetate affecta esseto be infirm through old age.Rate it:

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age outTo become too old for an activity, program or institution; to become too mature for a behavior.Rate it:

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alicui acceptum referre aliquid (Verr. 2. 70. 170)to put down to a man's credit.Rate it:

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alicui expensum ferre aliquidto put a thing down to a man's account.Rate it:

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alicui petenti satisfacere, non deesseto accede to a man's petitions.Rate it:

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alicuius in re publica or capessendae rei publicae consilia eo spectant, ut...a man's policy is aiming at, directed towards...Rate it:

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alicuius mens in scriptis spirata man's soul breathes through his writings.Rate it:

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aliquam suas res sibi habere iubere (Phil. 2. 28. 69)to separate from, divorce (of the man).Rate it:

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aliquem (incolumem) conservareto grant a man his life.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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aliquem affligere, perdere, pessumdare, in praeceps dareto bring a man to ruin; to destroy.Rate it:

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aliquem consulem renuntiare (De Or. 2. 64. 260)to offically proclaim (by the praeco, herald) a man elected consul; to return a man consul.Rate it:

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aliquem coram, in os or praesentem laudareto praise a man to his face.Rate it:

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aliquem ex paupere divitem facereto raise a man from poverty to wealth.Rate it:

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aliquem in antiquum statum, in pristinum restituereto restore a man to his former position.Rate it:

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aliquid est proprium alicuiussomething is a characteristic of a man.Rate it:

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aliquid laudi alicui ducere, dareto consider a thing creditable to a man.Rate it:

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all hands on deck!Nautical call for all ships crew to come topside and man their usual station. Work challenge or approaching gale threatens safety of crew and vessel.Rate it:

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