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a side glance!Offering/Receiving, observing a straight forward focus of attention, without any variation of head or eye movement.Rate it:

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à vous le déIt is your turn to play (at dice). [See Avoir.]Rate it:

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absent le chat, les souris dansentwhen the cat's away the mice will playRate it:

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act as tourch bearerWhen someone play significant role in others lifeRate it:

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act outTo go through the process of a scene from a play, a charade or a pointless exercise.Rate it:

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after the Lord Mayor's showSaid of a disappointing or mundane event occurring straight after an exciting, magnificent, or triumphal event.Rate it:

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against the run of playContrary to the flow of the game.Rate it:

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airmailTo throw the ball well over a fielder's head where that fielder is unable to make a play on the ball.Rate it:

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all the world's a stagePeople have roles to play in life just as actors do in the theatre.Rate it:

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all work and no play makes jack a dull boyToo much focus on one's career is often viewed unfavorably.Too much hard work and not enough leisure time can be unhealthy.Rate it:

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and don't play one on TVA term often used after a person claims to have no expertise in a topic of discussion, but still wants to contribute a comment.Rate it:

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ante upTo pay a fee necessary to play a game, typically a card gameRate it:

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As the Crow FliesDirect and shortest distance among two places, distance estimated in a straight lineRate it:

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as the crow fliesIn a straight line distance between two locations, as opposed to the road distance or over land distance.Rate it:

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aux états-unis les rues sont tirées au cordeauIn the United States the streets are perfectly straight.Rate it:

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break a leg!This is a common English phrase that is used to wish someone good luck before they perform in a play or other event.Rate it:

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BroadwayThe highest straight in poker, ace-king-queen-jack-ten.Rate it:

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buey viejo surco derechoan old ox, a straight furrow (it makes)Rate it:

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bug outMiss school, play truant, play hooky.Rate it:

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bunk offTo play truant.Rate it:

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bygones be bygones, and fair play for time to comeLet all past wrongs be forgotten, with a resumption of cordial relations.Rate it:

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center fieldThe part of a baseball field which is beyond the infield and straight ahead left if you stand on home plate and face the pitcher.Rate it:

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child's playSomething particularly simple or easy.Rate it:

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close of playThe end of a day's playRate it:

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close of playThe end of the final game (not to be confused with set or match) during a day at the All England Tennis Championships (Wimbledon)Rate it:

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close of playThe end of the working dayRate it:

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come stàAn instruction to play without improvised ornamentation or rhythmic alteration.Rate it:

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crack-upOne can 'crack-up' emotionally with laughter or tears as a result of an observation, a joke, a story, a scene, a sequence in a movie, opera, stage play or animal, baby or children;s antics:Rate it:

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curtain-raiserIn a theater, an initial play, musical performance, etc which precedes the main performance.Rate it:

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damn straightWithout doubt, certainly, for sure.Rate it:

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deadNot in play.Rate it:

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docere aliquem fidibusto teach some one to play a stringed instrument.Rate it:

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draw stumpsTo declare an end to the days play, and remove the bails and sometimes the stumps.Rate it:

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easy peasy (lemon squeezy)a rhyming expression for saying something is very easy, straight forward; also written easy-peasy; See also: piece of cake; a walk in the park; as easy as falling off a log; easy as pieRate it:

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effeuiller la margueriteTo play "she loves me, she loves me not".Rate it:

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eggs from sunkist hens -keep the kids' legs straight.means that eggs from hens living under plain sunlight (containing ultraviolet light) deliver Vitamin D an so prevent ricketsRate it:

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fabula, ludus scaenicusthe piece; the play.Rate it:

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fabulam agereto act a play (said of the actors).Rate it:

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fabulam dareto produce a play (of the writer).Rate it:

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fabulam edereto bring out a play, put it on the stage (used of the man who finds the money).Rate it:

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fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)to hiss a play.Rate it:

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fair playGood behavior, following the rulesRate it:

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faire l'école buissonnièreTo play truant.Rate it:

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faire l'homme d'importanceTo play the consequential; To give oneself airs; To be pompous.Rate it:

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faire les cent coupsTo amuse oneself noisily; To play all sorts of tricks.Rate it:

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faire un tour d'écolierTo play a schoolboy trick.Rate it:

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fiddle awayTo play the fiddle idly.Rate it:

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fidibus canereto play on the lyre.Rate it:

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fidibus discere (De Sen. 8. 26)to learn to play a stringed instrument.Rate it:

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first nightplay's openingRate it:

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