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a different ballparkSomething totally unrelated or of a vastly different scale or scope.Rate it:

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à grande échelleon a large scaleRate it:

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à grande échellelarge-scaleRate it:

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autant prendre la lune avec les dentsYou might just as well try and scale the moon.Rate it:

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blue noteNotes added to the major scale for expressive quality in jazz and blues music, particularly the flatted third, fifth and seventh.Rate it:

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boil the oceanAttempting something that is unachievable due to large scale.Rate it:

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bubble underto be successful on a modest scale, without yet being fully establishedRate it:

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en petitOn a small scale.Rate it:

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faire la courte échelle à quelqu'unTo allow some one to climb on one’s shoulders to scale a height; To give a lift to some one.Rate it:

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faire pencher la balanceTo turn the scale.Rate it:

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faire quelque chose en grandTo do something on a large scale.Rate it:

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grande, magnum (opp. exiguum) aes alienum conflareto incur debts on a large scale.Rate it:

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knife-edgeA piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction.Rate it:

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laughing all the way to the bankA person who has achieved success on a monetary scale when others doubted him.Rate it:

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momentum afferre ad aliquidto determine the issue of; to turn the scale.Rate it:

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nickel and dimeSmall time; operating on a small scale; involving small amounts of money; petty or cheap.Rate it:

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on a napoleonic scaleon a huge, ambitious scale.Rate it:

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phase downTo gradually reduce the size or scale ofRate it:

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pitched battleA hostile engagement involving sustained, full-scale fighting between opposing forces in close combat.Rate it:

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pocket-sizedsmall-scale, downsizedRate it:

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positis scalis muros ascendereto scale the walls by means of ladders.Rate it:

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read offTo read from a scale or measure.Rate it:

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returns to scalea function describing how returns scale when production increases in the long runRate it:

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scale backTo make a reduction in the amount, extent, etc. of something.Rate it:

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scale downTo reduce the cost of a process, or the amount spent on something.Rate it:

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scale downTo reduce the size of something whilst maintaining proportion.Rate it:

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scale offTo peel offRate it:

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scale outTo scale up by adding more servers or nodes.Rate it:

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scale upTo change a process in order to allow for greater quantitiesRate it:

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scale upTo increase the size of something whilst maintaining proportionRate it:

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sing upto sing higher, to sing an ascending scaleRate it:

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throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stickTry the same thing (or similar things) often enough, and, even if the general standard is poor, sometimes one will be successful.2001, And still no one is shouting stop. read in The Kingdom archives at on 02 Nov 06,Many team managers are of the philosophy that if you throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick. They believe that team preparation is all about physical fitness. They run the players into the ground and they believe they will be "flying on the day".2001, Robert McCrum, Let them eat cake, in The Observer 16 Dec 01, read on Guardian Unlimited site at on 02 Nov 06,Australian publishing boomed and in the past 10 years the country's literary culture has undergone a mini golden age, capped by Carey's triumph at the 2001 Booker Prize. As one Australian arts administrator said to me many years ago: 'Listen, mate, if you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick.'2001, Chris Collin, Re: 2-cp speys on The Strathspey Server mailing list archive at on 02 Nov 06,I am finding that "if you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick". It doesn't always work of course (especially on the nights when the class is mostly the beginners), but the class seems to thrive on the challange.2005, Ray Craft (poster on The right scale blog), Fitzhooie and his Burden, read at on 02 Nov 06,Prosecutors everywhere have bad habits of overcharging lots of cases, knowing that if the throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick.2005, Sean Kelleher, Spike Milligan: His part in our downfall in Business 07 Aug 05, read at on 02 Nov 06,As long as there is negligible regulation and enforcement anyone can actually try and do the job...Weak regulation allows the industry to build strategies on full time recruitment. The theory goes: throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick.c2005, Everything You've Learned About Marketing Is Wrong, read on LINC Performance website at on 02 Nov 06,They have the money to continue to believe in the repetition side of the equation. You throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick. But it still isnRate it:

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thumb on the scaleAn act of bias or a tactic for cheating which creates a situation that unfairly benefits one party involved in an interaction.Rate it:

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tip the scaleTo change the fortunes, either positively or negatively.Rate it:

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tip the scaleTo weigh (have a certain weight).Rate it:

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turn the scaleTo turn to one side a balanced situation.Rate it:

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workers of the world, uniteLaborers are encouraged to unionize or otherwise engage in collective action on a global scale in order to use the strength of their numbers to obtain better conditions.Rate it:

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writ largeMagnified; on a large scale.Rate it:

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