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banana split	dessert dish	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
colt over the fence	An illegitimate child.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
couper les cheveux en quatre	to split hairs	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
couper un cheveu en quatre	To split hairs.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
coupons la poire en deux	Let us split the difference.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Diamond	In Railroad Parlance, the especially designed, critically installed rail-section in place at 'Cross-Over' point. Special Switch-Tower With Special Switch-Point Equipment operated 24/7 by Experts:	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
disputer sur la pointe d'une aiguille	To raise a discussion on a subject of no importance; To split hairs.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
enculer les mouches	to split hairs; to nitpick	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
fence in	To enclose with a fence.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fence in	To restrict freedom.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fence off	To enclose an area within a fence.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
go dutch	To pay for one's own food and bills, or split the cost, when eating at a restaurant or going out for entertainment.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
jump the fence	To change from first approach, approach from a different direction, suggest a completely foreign idea.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
let the door hit you where the good Lord split you	A command that another person leave, thereby impliedly having the door hit them on the buttocks as they pass through it.	Rate it: (5.00 / 2 votes)
lickety-split	A mad rush; right now!; in this instant:	Rate it: (4.00 / 2 votes)
make like a banana and split	to leave, depart	Rate it: (4.50 / 2 votes)
on the fence	Undecided; wavering in one's opinion.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
On the Fence	Undecided about something, unwilling to commit, unable to choose the side	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the fence	Unsure about something	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
put the bottom rail on top	To reverse a hierarchy.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
rake	A set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
ride on a rail	To be subjected to a punishment most prevalent in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries in which an offender was made to straddle a fence rail held on the shoulders of two or more bearers. The victim was then paraded around town or taken to the city limits and dumped by the roadside.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
rire comme un bossu	To split one’s sides with laughter.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sit on the fence	To remain neutral on a certain topic, to not have a stance or opinion.	Rate it: (4.20 / 10 votes)
skinny as a rail	Especially of a person, very skinny.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Split Hairs	To argue or being grumpy about trivial and unimportant differences	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
split hairs	Tedious details; minutiae.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
split off	To break away from a group or mass.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
split one's sides	To laugh hysterically	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
split second	To happen very quickly (typically in less than a second)	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
split the difference	In a financial transaction, to settle on an amount midway between the offer and the asking price.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
split the difference	To choose an option or take a position roughly midway between two opposed alternatives; to compromise.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
split up	cause to come apart, separate or split	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
split up	split into smaller groups or to go in different directions	Rate it: (4.50 / 4 votes)
split up	discontinue or no longer be committed in a relationship or partnership; separate, divorce, disassociate	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
standard fare	The usual price for travel by air, rail, or another means of transport.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sunder out	To separate or set apart from others; split out; segregate.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
SwitchStand	A Normally Padlocked Manually-operated, Switch-point Arrangement At the Point Of a Sidetrack, Entry to A Yard, Commercial Warehouse, Shipping Terminal et al to enable shunting Entire Trains, Railcars, Rail Equipment from Mainline, or SpecLine, to Location/ Other:	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
throw one's hat over the fence	To commit fully.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
vous me cassez la tête avec votre bruit	You split my head with your noise.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)