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work the roomTo interact with one's audience, taking queues from its reactions and adapting one's performance or words to elicit the audience's attention and enthusiasm.Rate it:

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step asideto make room for others as replacements by withdrawing from a position or service; substituted for ‘step down’ or ‘step away’Rate it:

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tidy upTo make clean. In particular to make satisfactorily neat. Usually used to describe the straightening-out of a small room or small space.Rate it:

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under the roseKeep in secret, whatever is said in a certain room stays in that room. Generally used in conspiracies.Rate it:

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a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go downAn otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced.1999, Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253335833, page 372,One is known as the "sweetening parable," that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Thus, when the aim is to preach to the people, to guide them along the "bitter," arduous path of upholding burdensome precepts and prohibitions, a tale can lighten the load, make the "medicine" easier "to swallow."2001, Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir, Little, Brown, ISBN 0316736368, page 319,It put some fun into the tedious business of preparing for a presidential debate. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, right?2004, John Hoover, How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive... Without Killing Your Boss, Career Press, ISBN 1564147045, page 11,If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a barrel of laughs can wash down the big pills you might need to swallow.Rate it:

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mercuryA silvery-colored metallic chemical element, liquid at room temperature, with atomic number 80 and symbol Hg.Rate it:

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pop outTo leave a room or building with the expectation of returning soon.Rate it:

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brighten upBrighten up a room.Rate it:

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do upTo redecorate a room etc.Rate it:

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padded cellA room in insane asylum with padding on the walls to prevent delusional occupants from injuring themselves.Rate it:

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bright-line ruleA clearly defined rule or standard, composed of objective factors, which leaves little or no room for varying interpretation.Rate it:

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scrub inTo thoroughly wash one's hands and forearms in preparation for performing a surgery.Rate it:

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check your ego at the door!A direct, crisp, critical rejoinder to another, 'to leave their egoism without the room', {at the door}!Rate it:

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show inTo lead or direct someone to an enclosed space, usually a room.Rate it:

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avoir les coudées franches(lit.) To have elbow-room; (fig.) To have full scope.Rate it:

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backroom dealDeals that are made in secret, in a dishonest way (sometimes and probably originally literally behind closed doors and/or in some back room in private. See also, shady, back-alley deals (a similar expression meaning the same thing)Rate it:

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barber's signA standing pole and two wash-balls, historically used outside barber's shops.Rate it:

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blue chamberA forbidden room.Rate it:

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brebis qui bêle perd sa gouléeIt is the silent sow that sucks the wash.Rate it:

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bright-line ruleA clearly defined rule or standard, comprised of objective factors, which leaves little or no room for varying interpretation.Rate it:

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budge upTo move or scoot over in order to make room for someone, especially when sitting.Rate it:

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can I come inAsks for permission to enter a room.Rate it:

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cast upto wash something onto the shore.Rate it:

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cela laisse à désirerThere is room for improvement; It is not quite the thing.Rate it:

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do not disturbUsed to indicate that somebody does not wish to be disturbed, e.g. a sign on a hotel room door, or a "busy" mode of an instant messenger.Rate it:

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do not enterUsed to ask not to enter, e.g. a sign on a hotel room door.Rate it:

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do the dishesto wash out all the dishes after dinnersRate it:

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freshen upto wash or groom oneself in order to be more attractiveRate it:

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grand entranceTo enter a room or event with an as if you are a person of royalty or importance, either real or perceived (ie. by the person entering or by their peers at the event.Rate it:

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huis closan enclosed space such as a room or cellRate it:

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hutch upto move slightly, in order to make room for someone; for example to move in a bed to make room for someone else to lie, or to move sideways on on a seat so as to allow someone room to sit and share that same seat.Rate it:

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il a une chambre grande comme la mainHe has a room not big enough to swing a cat in.Rate it:

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in like flynnSuccessfully got inside a locked room or difficult situation with some effort.Rate it:

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in shapeI guess I'd better get my room in shape if I have guests.Rate it:

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je suis à l'étroitI am cramped for room.Rate it:

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ladies' loungeA room in a pub or hotel, separate from the main drinking area, in which drinks are served; originally a place for women to drink in when not welcome or not comfortable in the traditionally male-oriented public bar, and latterly a more genteel area than the public bar. Rate it:

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Left Out in the ColdTo ask someone to get out of the room so that he may not listen something important, ignored and left outRate it:

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love nestA room, especially a bedroom or boudoir, used for sexual intercourse.Rate it:

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not the brightest bulb in the chandelierThere are more intelligent (i.e. brighter) people in the room or in existence generally.Rate it:

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offer affordancesTo give elbow room or leeway for something to happen.Rate it:

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or elseClean up your room, or else!.Rate it:

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passe-moi la casse (rhubarbe), je te passerai le sénéClaw me and I’ll claw thee; One hand washes the other, and both wash the face.Rate it:

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prendre du champTo take a run (before leap); To have room before one (for an effort).Rate it:

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redd upTo clean up, especially a room.Rate it:

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scrub upto clean or wash by scrubbingRate it:

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sell a bargainA species of wit, much in vogue about the latter end of the reign of Queen Anne, and frequently alluded to by Dean Swift, who says the maids of honour often amused themselves with it. It consisted in the seller naming his or her hinder parts, in answer to the question, What? which the buyer was artfully led to ask. As a specimen, take the following instance: A lady would come into a room full of company, apparently frightened, crying out "It is white, and follows me!" As soon as someone responded "What?" she sold him the bargain, by saying "Mine arse".Rate it:

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show somebody the doorTo escort someone to the exit of the premises; to expel someone from a room, gathering, etc.Rate it:

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show someone the doorTo escort someone to the exit of the premises; to expel someone from a room, gathering, etc.Rate it:

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SROstanding room onlyRate it:

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SROsingle room occupancyRate it:

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