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servabo fidemI shall keep faith.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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the one who always envies someone in society, will never live in gaietyThis idiom means that if a person spends time complaining, criticizing and whining about what everyone else does, owns, or how successful other people are about their financial situation, job career, or results they get, instead of focusing and trying their best to improve one's situation, the only consequence is that this behavior will keep them in the guts, that is, at a lower life level than the one they wish to be.Rate it:

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look afterTo watch or protect; to keep safe.Rate it:

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chicken outBack-out of an activity because of fear or other mindless reason. Refuse to keep your word.Rate it:

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she would rip a dog off a gut wagonA gut wagon was a horse drawn wagon that was used for collecting butcher's scraps for further processing. The wagons were often followed by determined and persistent dogs intent on eating the contents of the wagon. It took a great deal of effort to keep these dogs away from or off the wagon. A person's appearance ugly or objectionable enough to discourage or scare the dogs from the gut wagon would be ugly indeed.Rate it:

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read to filth (or) read for filthBasically to scold, or to get called out on something; to reprimand, to degrade, to cuss out, to correct, to set them straight, to tell them what's what & who's who.Rate it:

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lie doggokeep quietRate it:

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wouldn't work in a pie factory tasting piesLazy and will not keep a job anywhereRate it:

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a rolling stone gathers no mossA person who never settles in one place will never be successful.A person who does not keep active will grow mouldy.Rate it:

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latch ontoTo obtain, acquire or get and keep hold of something.Rate it:

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bang on aboutTo keep talking endlessly about the same subject.Rate it:

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bear offTo remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything.Rate it:

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deliver the goodsTo keep one's promises.Rate it:

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hide one's light under a bushelFor a person to keep some talent or skill hidden from other people. The tone is that a person having a talent which they can be proud of ought not hide it.Rate it:

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like a martin to his gourdStraight, unerringly, directly.Rate it:

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rule outTo cross an item out by drawing a straight line through it, as with a ruler.Rate it:

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shushA nice way of saying shut up, be quiet, lower your voice, keep your mouth shut.Rate it:

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straighten outTo make straight.Rate it:

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straighten upTo become straight, or straighterRate it:

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hold onTo keep; to store something for someone.Rate it:

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a side glance!Offering/Receiving, observing a straight forward focus of attention, without any variation of head or eye movement.Rate it:

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stop an eight-day clock and throw it into reverseBefore batteries and household electricity were used to power clocks, most clocks had to be wound by hand to keep operating. Eight-day clocks were designed so they only had to be wound every eighth day and the movement only turned in a clockwise direction. Therefore, someone with an appearance objectionable enough to stop the clock and send the movement spinning in the wrong and opposite direction would be ugly indeed.Rate it:

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after the Lord Mayor's showSaid of a disappointing or mundane event occurring straight after an exciting, magnificent, or triumphal event.Rate it:

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As the Crow FliesDirect and shortest distance among two places, distance estimated in a straight lineRate it:

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button upTo fasten all the buttons on a coat, or similar item of clothing, to keep warm.Rate it:

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Button Your LipTo be quite, to keep silenceRate it:

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go back onTo fail to keep; to renege on; as, to go back on one's promises.Rate it:

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renfermer le loup dans la bergerieTo set the fox to keep the geese.Rate it:

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tie upTo occupy, detain, keep busy, or delay.Rate it:

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Get This Show on the RoadGet something moving, step ahead and keep goingRate it:

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BroadwayThe highest straight in poker, ace-king-queen-jack-ten.Rate it:

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center fieldThe part of a baseball field which is beyond the infield and straight ahead left if you stand on home plate and face the pitcher.Rate it:

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companyKeep the house clean, I have company coming.Rate it:

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shotgunA one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line. Mostly heard in the southern United States.Rate it:

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the jetset wayThe JetSet Way is the only way. People who live this way are straight alpha/sigma males and have the ability at will to ethically attain any and every woman they shall desire, own any car they shall want, wear whatever brand clothes they want, get VIP access everywhere and will spend more time on planes traveling to foreign countries than they do at their home. The Jet Set Way was coined by JetSetFly (also known as Josh King Madrid) himself.Rate it:

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acharnement thérapeutiqueProviding medical care to keep patients alive when there is no hope that it will benefit or cure themRate it:

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alere equos, canesto keep horses, dogs.Rate it:

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aliquem in officio continereto keep some one in subjection.Rate it:

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animo adesse(1) to be attentive; (2) to keep one's presence of mind.Rate it:

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as the crow fliesIn a straight line distance between two locations, as opposed to the road distance or over land distance.Rate it:

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aux états-unis les rues sont tirées au cordeauIn the United States the streets are perfectly straight.Rate it:

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back burnerA section of a stove used to keep some pots warm while one focuses on others.Rate it:

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balance the booksTo put or keep any closed or conservative system or its analysis in balance.Rate it:

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blindA covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.Rate it:

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bottomless pitA person who can keep eating without ever seeming to fill up, or a vessel which never fills however much is added.Rate it:

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buey viejo surco derechoan old ox, a straight furrow (it makes)Rate it:

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caveat emptorA provision of Roman law which gave the seller of a house the legal right to keep quiet about any defects of the house.Rate it:

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ces poires sont de bonne gardeThese pears will keep well.Rate it:

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civitatem servitute oppressam tenere (Dom. 51. 131)to keep the citizens in servile subjection.Rate it:

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