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blue-eyedSomeone's favorite, as in blue-eyed boyRate it:

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the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get(vulgar) The sexual satisfactions that one receives from a spouse or romantic partner are not sufficient to compensate for the significant periods of bad faith and unpleasant treatment which such relationships routinely involve.1971, Allen Churchill, The Literary Decade, ISBN 9780135375228:Years later she expressed her disillusionment with sex by saying, "The fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."1999, Ben Sonnenberg, Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy, ISBN 9781582430454, p. 93:Maitland got drunk at his parties and threw his arm around you and pulled you over to his wife and made you look down her dress, saying, "The trouble with marriage is that the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."2008, Joseph Heywood, Blue Wolf In Green Fire, ISBN 9781599213590, p. 63:"I can't believe a little pussy got me into dis mess." "Shit happens," Service said. "Sometimes the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."Rate it:

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attaboyUsed to show encouragement or approval to a boy or man.Rate it:

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be preparedTo always be in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your duty (motto of the Boy Scouts and pioneers).Rate it:

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big boysPlural form of big boy.Rate it:

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c'est un blanc becHe is a beardless boy, greenhorn.Rate it:

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ce garçon gaspille son tempsThat boy fools his time away.Rate it:

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deez nutsballs for a human boyRate it:

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entre chien et loupbetween a dog and a wolf.Rate it:

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fruit upTo grope a young boy.Rate it:

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goûtez-moi ce vin; vous m'en direz des nouvelles (fam.)You just taste this wine, you don’t get wine like that every day; What do you think of that for wine, my boy?Rate it:

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il cria à pleine gorgeHe cried out as loud as he could.Rate it:

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il y a de l'étoffe dans cet enfantThere is grit in that boy.Rate it:

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knock some sense into his headDepression Expression: During the Depression, there was little empathy for the unemployed. Pundits identified the loafer, the hobo, the bum, the specified lazy-boy, the uninspired, those lacking ambition as needing a wakeup Call.Rate it:

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l'arc toujours tendu se gâteAll work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.Rate it:

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off one's gameC. 1910, Ralph Henry Barbour, "The Dub" in The New Boy at Hilltop and Other Stories.Rate it:

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puer decem annoruma boy ten years old.Rate it:

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young manA term of endearment or address for a boy.Rate it:

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近朱者赤，近墨者黑Different environments provide different influences; who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howlRate it:

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