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kitchen table softwareEspecially in the early years of personal computers, a set of computer programs developed by an entrepreneurial advanced amateur or self-employed professional computer programmer in his or her own home; software developed by a small business using the services of such programmers.Rate it:

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knacker's yardThat area of a slaughterhouse where carcasses unfit for human consumption are rendered down to produce useful materials such as glue.Rate it:

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Knock on WoodThose having superstitious beliefs such as knocking on wood save them to have a bad luckRate 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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knock yourself outHave as much as you like there's plenty of things available.Rate it:

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know every trick in the bookto know all there is to be known about a certain discipline.Rate it:

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Know the RopesTo be well aware of everything around, to have knowledge of doing any complicated thingRate it:

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la duda ofendeHow could you think such a thing?Rate it:

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la raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleureMight is right; There is no arguing with a large fist.Rate it:

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lá se foithere goesRate it:

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lá se vaithere goesRate it:

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laetitiam capere or percipere ex aliqua reto take pleasure in a thing.Rate it:

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last wordA final decision, or the right to make such a decision.Rate it:

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laundry-shareAn arrangement in which owners of usually privately owned washers and dryers who wish to do others’ laundry and community users who choose to have their laundry done nearby, any time of the day, no matter where they are, use a network (such as one accessed through an app or a website) to coordinate the pickup and drop off soiled and cleaned garments, for which the user or soiled garment owner pays the washer (laundry doer) to clean for them.Rate it:

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lawyer upTo exercise one's right to legal representation, especially on the occasion of refusing to answer law-enforcement officials' questions without the presence of such legal representation.Rate it:

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le beurre et l'argent du beurreone's cake and eating it too; two mutually exclusive things, such that one can only choose one over anotherRate it:

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le cas échéantShould such a thing happen; If such should be the case.Rate it:

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le fort portant le faibleOne thing with another; On an average.Rate it:

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le loup mourra dans sa peauA bad thing never dies; A bad man will die a bad man.Rate it:

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le repentir vient ordinairement trop tardDo a thing in haste and repent at leisure.Rate it:

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leave it at thatTo agree that there has been enough discussion, study, etc. and that it is time to stop.Rate it:

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legibus solvereto free from legal obligations.Rate it:

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les grands esprits se rencontrentGreat wits always jump together; We both said the same thing at the same moment.Rate it:

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let looseset freeRate it:

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Let Your Hair DownTo act in a natural way, revealing ones real self, to behave in a free and relaxing mannerRate it:

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leviter significare aliquidto hint vaguely at a thing.Rate it:

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liberum populum servitute afficereto enslave a free people.Rate it:

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light paintingCamera painting, the artistic technique of moving a camera (while it records at a low shutter speed) such that light sources appear in multiple places or as streaks in the resulting photograph, the "painting".Rate it:

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lightning in a bottleA difficult or challenging feat, particularly to attempt such a feat.Rate it:

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little engine that could (the)a reference to a children's story about an engine that tried even when he didn't think he could succeedRate it:

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live oneA person, thing, or situation which is particularly interesting, noteworthy, or urgent.Rate it:

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live wireAn electrical wire through which there is a flow of electrical current.Rate it:

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living proofA real-life person or thing which demonstrates the validity of a hypothesis.Rate it:

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lock, stock and barrelA thing in its entirety, with nothing omitted.Rate it:

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Lock, Stock, and BarrelTo mean the whole thingRate it:

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look who's talkingused when someone receives criticism for something by someone else who is guilty of the same thingRate it:

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lost soulA soul that is destined to go to hell; a person possessing such a soul.Rate it:

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lubrication paymentA bribe or extorted money, usually relatively small in amount, provided to a low-level government official or business person, in order to expedite a business decision, shipment, or other transaction, especially in a country where such payments are not unusual.Rate it:

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lucrum facere (opp. damnum facere) ex aliqua reto make profit out of a thing.Rate it:

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luctum percipere ex aliqua reto feel sorrow about a thing.Rate it:

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magna caedes hostium fugientium facta estthere was great slaughter of fugitives.Rate it:

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magnas pecunias ex aliqua re (e.g. ex metallis) facereto have a large income from a thing (e.g. from mines).Rate it:

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magnum usum in aliqua re habereto have had great experience in a thing.Rate it:

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man is the measure of all thingsthe doctrine that all knowledge is subjective, being derived from observations made by humans, and there can be no objective truthRate it:

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man upTo "be a man about it"; to do the things a good man is traditionally expected to do, such as: taking responsibility for the consequences of one's actions; displaying bravery or toughness in the face of adversity; providing for one's family, etc.Rate it:

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mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbaturthere is a storm at sea.Rate it:

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may as wellUsed to reluctantly express that there is no better alternative to do than do a certain actionRate it:

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memoria alicuius rei excidit, abiit, abolevitthe recollection of a thing has been entirely lost.Rate it:

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memoria tanta fuit, uthe had such an extraordinary memory that...Rate it:

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memoriā tenere aliquidto remember a thing perfectly.Rate it:

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