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around the HornVia shipboard communications, formerly metal tubes with earhorn-like ends.Rate it:

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arrivare alla fine del mesemake ends meetRate it:

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barrelA round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.Rate it:

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bestes Wissen und Gewissenthe best of one's knowledge; good faith; roughly combining the senses of both English idioms, namely that one does or says something in the honest conviction of its correctness but under the condition of the fallibility of one’s knowledge and competencesRate it:

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Bite Your TongueTo hold ones words or to have control over what one is willing to say, to being ashamed of something that has been said or trying not to say itRate it:

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blaze upTo burn more brightlyRate it:

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boon and baneSomething that is both a benefit and an affliction.Rate it:

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box the compassTo know, and be able to recite the 32 points and quarter points of the magnetic compass from North, both clockwise and anticlockwise.Rate it:

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brûler la chandelle par les deux boutsburn one's candle at both ends, or both )Rate it:

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brûler la chandelle par les deux boutsTo burn the candle at both ends.Rate it:

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brush downUsed other than as an idiom: see brush, down. To remove something with a brush, or ones hands using a downward brushing motion.Rate it:

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busted flushAnything which ends up worthless despite great potential.Rate it:

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c'est la faim qui épouse la soifThey are both very poor; It is one beggar marrying another.Rate it:

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chilly climateA male-dominated environment where both overt and subtle forms of discrimination lead to the unequal treatment of womenRate it:

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close to homeAffecting people close to, or within, ones family circle.Rate it:

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cracked me upTo break ones solemnity, reservedness, seriousness.Rate it:

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dead as a doornailUnquestionably dead. Used for both inanimate objects and once living beings.Rate it:

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deathblowSomething that prevents the completion, or ends the existence of some project etc.Rate it:

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diable vauverta million miles away, to the ends of the earthRate it:

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don't zig when you should zag, once you find true love.Make the right steps and not the wrong ones when you have someone who loves you and/or you are in a relationship, in order to keep love and not lose it.Rate it:

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donner une chandelle à dieu et une au diableTo try and keep in with both parties.Rate it:

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dot the i's and cross the t'sTo take care of every detail, even minor ones; To be meticulous or thorough.Rate it:

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en dos d'âneSloping on both sides, sharp-ridged.Rate it:

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f*ck how it turn outI don't care about how it ends or simply not bothered.Rate it:

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fall between two stoolsTo attempt two tasks and fail at both, when either one could have been accomplished singly.Rate it:

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feather one's nestTo achieve benefits, especially financial ones, by taking advantage of the opportunities with which one is presented; to amass a comfortable amount of personal wealth.Rate it:

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feed a cold, starve a feverEating more will cure the common cold, and eating less will cure a fever.1887, J. H. Whelan, "The Treatment of Colds.", The Practitioner, vol. 38, pg. 180:"Feed a cold, starve a fever." There is a deal of wisdom in the first part of this advice. A person with a catarrh should take an abundance of light nutritious food, and some light wine, but avoid spirits, and above all tobacco.1968, Katinka Loeser, The Archers at Home, publ. Atheneum, New York, pg. 60:I have a cold. 'Feed a cold, starve a fever.' You certainly know that.2009, Shelly Reuben, Tabula Rasa, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 015101079X, pg. 60:They say feed a cold, starve a fever, but they don't tell you what to do when you got both, so I figured scrambled eggs, tea, and toast.Rate it:

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flare upTo burn brightly again.Rate it:

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Fly in the OintmentA small disturbance or irritation which can spoil ones pleasure and excitementRate it:

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French kissA kiss (or the act of kissing) which involves the touching of both persons' tongues.Rate it:

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full circleThrough a rotation or revolution that ends at the starting point.Rate it:

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get intoTo move into an object, such that one ends up inside it.Rate it:

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go up in smokeTo catch fire and burn.Rate it:

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golden showerThe act of a person urinating on another, usually for sexual stimulation of one or both persons.Rate it:

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haec vox longa syllaba terminatur, in longam syllabam cadit, exitthis word ends in a long syllable.Rate it:

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Have Your Cake and Eat It TooTo have something both ways, to have something in possession and be able to exploit or use itRate it:

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hold a lightSynonym of hold a candleRate it:

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hold with the hare and run with the houndsTo remain neutral by attempting to placate two factions or both sides of a controversy.Rate it:

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home runThe portion of a journey that ends at home.Rate it:

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il en a l'air et la chansonHe looks it every inch; He has both the appearance and the actuality.Rate it:

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ils tirèrent sur lui à brûle-pourpointThey fired at him point-blank (so as to burn his doublet).Rate it:

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imperium orbis terrarum terminis definiturthe empire reaches to the ends of the world.Rate it:

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in utramque partem, in contrarias partes disputare (De Or. 1. 34)to discuss both sides of a question.Rate it:

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in utraque rein both cases; whichever way you look at it.Rate it:

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jeu de mains, jeu de vilains1. Horse-play is not gentlemanly. 2. Rough play often ends in tears.Rate it:

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jump ropeThe activity, game or exercise in which a person must jump, bounce or skip repeatedly while a length of rope is swung over and under, both ends held in the hands of the jumper, or alternately, held by two other participants. Often used for athletic training and among schoolchildren. Variations involve speed, chants, varied rope and jumper movement patterns, multiple jumpers and/or multiple ropes.Rate it:

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Keep Up With the JonesesTo live up to like ones neighbors, to maintain a living standard as one’s influential neighbors haveRate it:

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la fin couronne l'œuvreThe end crowns all; All’s well that ends well.Rate it:

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lap dogA small dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament make it both suited and disposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner.Rate it:

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lay it outTo explain thoroughly; to discuss both sides completely.Rate it:

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