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keep one's eye on the ballMy ethos has always been to be very straight with people, tell it as it is. It doesn't often make people happy but I found that over a period of time it's better to be that way. So being straight, also being very focused on your objectives, keep your eye on the ball and not get deflected away from it.Rate it:

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à la guerre comme à la guerreOne must take things as they come; We must take the rough with the smooth.Rate it:

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build downIn solitaire card games, to place a card over another card of higher value.Rate it:

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doTo take drugs.Rate it:

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drive the porcelain busTo vomit, especially while drunk or hung over.Rate it:

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hand overTo relinquish control or possession of something to someone.Rate it:

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les grosses mouches passent à travers la toile de la justice, mais les petites y sont prisesOne man may steal a horse, while another dare not look over the hedge; Justice will whip a beggar, but bow to a lord; One does the scath, another has the harm; The crow gets pardoned, and the dove has the blame.Rate it:

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nugget of truthJanuary 2008, Chicago Tribune - Clinton's Hispanic edge over Obama.Rate it:

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plus fin que lui n'est pas bêteHe who can take him in is no fool.\n It would take a smart man to deceive him.Rate it:

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Pull the Wool over Your EyesTo play trick with someone making him or her fool, to deceive or cheat someoneRate it:

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run roughshod overTo treat roughly or without care, respect, or moderation; to act without control; to damage.Rate it:

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sorry, not sorryUsed to sarcastically express a lack of guilt over an action or statement.Rate it:

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that's the way life isThat is the way things happenCertain things cannot be changed, helped or improved; struggle and objection are pointless.1935, Louis Bromfield, The Man Who Had Everything, page 279:That's the way life is, and there's no use trying to go against it.1979, Jay Edward Abrams, A Theology of Christian Counseling: More Than Redemption, ISBN 0310511011, page 45:There are no standards, no values; that's the way life is. Learn to accept it and slide with it. Stop fighting it.2002, B. Eugene Ellison, Rings of the Templars, ISBN 059524050X, page 337:Shit happens; that's the way life is. In fact, I want you to take an additional thousand for your efforts.Rate it:

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walk all overTo easily beat a competitor in a contest; to win without much effort.Rate it:

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Water over the DamEvents that are unchangeable, past eventsRate it:

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whore outTo prostitute, take advantage of, exploit, show off; to hire out or provide to others like a whore; to pimp, swap one's sex partner.Rate it:

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à votre air on ne vous donnerait pas vingt-cinq ansFrom your looks I should take you for less than five-and-twenty.Rate it:

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accordez-vous si votre affaire est bonne, si votre cause est mauvaise, plaidez. [j. b. rousseau , épigrammes, ii. 19]If you’ve a good case, try and compromise; If you’ve a bad one, take it into court.Rate it:

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act uponTo take action on the basis of information received or deduced.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 opus faciendum accedereto take a task in hand, engage upon it.Rate it:

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adieu paniers, vendanges sont faitesYou come too late, it is all over.Rate it:

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after youA gesture, usually polite, urging another person to take a turn at something ahead of the speaker.Rate it:

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agitare (in) mente or (in) animo aliquidto think over, consider a thing.Rate it:

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aimer la besogne faiteTo hate work; To like to get work over.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 in or ad consilium adhibereto consult a person, take his advice.Rate it:

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all holidayA saying signifying that it is all over with the business or person spoken of or alluded to/.Rate it:

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all overDone; finished; complete.Rate it:

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all over grumbleUnsatisfactory.Rate it:

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all over grumbleInferior.Rate it:

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all over hell's half acreAll over the place; everywhere.Rate it:

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all over oneselfFeeling self-satisfied.Rate it:

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all over the boardShowing a wide range of values with no particular pattern.Rate it:

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all over the mapWidely scattered or distributed; numerous and differing greatly.Rate it:

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all over the placeEverywhere, especially chaotically or in such a way as to make a mess.Rate it:

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all over the placeInconsistent; lacking a clear pattern.Rate it:

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all over the place like a mad woman's custardMoving about randomly.Rate it:

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all over the shopEverywhere, scattered, disorganised.Rate it:

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all over withCompletely finished; over.Rate it:

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all rights reservedThe copyright holder of a creative work reserves all copyright-related rights, typically including the right to publish the work, to make derivative works of it, to distribute it, to make profit from it, to license a number of these rights to other people, and to forbid these uses by any unauthorized people, thus being entitled to take legal action against infringement.Rate it:

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all the whileAt the same time as, usually over an extended period.Rate it:

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all your base are belong to usUsed to tout victory over an opponent, or simply as a humorous catchphrase.Rate it:

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all-over oneselfFeeling self-satisfied.Rate it:

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angle of attackThe angle between the chord line of an airfoil and the airflow over it; one of the determiners of the amount of lift produced by an airfoil.Rate it:

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animum capere, colligereto take courage.Rate it:

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animum recipere (Liv. 2. 50)to take courage again.Rate it:

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animus alicui accedit, crescitto take courage.Rate it:

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arma capere, sumereto take up one's arms.Rate it:

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around robin hood's barnAll over the place.Rate it:

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