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tap upTo make a specific approach to a person considered to be suitable for a professional position.Rate it:

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the chickens come home to roostA person's past wrongdoings will return to negatively affect them.Rate it:

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to hell withUsed to show displeasure or disregard toward the named person or thing.Rate it:

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unknown quantityA person or thing whose nature or value is a mystery.Rate it:

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voice in the wildernessA person, publication, or other source of assertions that expresses an opinion, doctrine, or point of view which is ignored or rejected by almost all others; the actual utterance of an unpopular opinion, doctrine, or point of view.Rate it:

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(ex) iure, lege agere cum aliquoto go to law with a person.Rate it:

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(maximis, summis) laudibus efferre aliquem or aliquidto praise, extol, commend a person.Rate it:

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a real hotdoggerA Reference to an energetic, active or talented person.Rate it:

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a scholar and a gentlemanAn admirable person.Rate it:

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a stormy petrelA person who is restless or turbulent, and who is likely to stir up trouble.Rate it:

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ab (cum) aliquo stare (Brut. 79. 273)to be on a person's side (not ab alicuius partibus).Rate it:

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ab alicuius latere non discedereto be always at a person's side.Rate it:

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able to get a word in edgewiseAble to participate in the conversation; able to interrupt another person's monologue.Rate it:

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abrogare alicui imperiumto deprive a person of his position as commandant.Rate it:

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abrogare alicui munus (Verr. 2. 57)to remove a person from his office.Rate it:

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accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis)to entertain, regale a person.Rate it:

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according toAccording to him, every person was to be bought. - Thomas Babington Macaulay.Rate it:

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accusare aliquem de vi, de veneficiisto accuse a person of violence, poisoning.Rate it:

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accusare aliquem falsarum tabularumto accuse a person of forging the archives.Rate it:

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accusare aliquem inter sicarios (Rosc. Am. 32. 90)to accuse a person of assassination.Rate it:

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accusare aliquem maiestatisto accuse a person of high treason (more specific than the preceding).Rate it:

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accusare aliquem perduellionisto charge a person with treason (hostile conduct against the state generally).Rate it:

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acquired tasteSomething that is appreciated only after having initially been regarded as unappealing or unpleasant; a person who is regarded as difficult or dislikable but of whom at least some have grown to approve.Rate it:

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across the boardA racing bet where one bets that the same competitor will place in first, second and third.Rate it:

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acts of violenceViolent or otherwise harmful acts, usually to a person, animal, or object.Rate it:

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ad pedes alicuius iacēre, stratum esse (stratum iacēre)to prostrate oneself before a person.Rate it:

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Adam TilerA pickpocket's accomplice; the person who takes the goods a pickpocket steals and leaves with them.Rate it:

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addle pateA foolish or dull-witted person.Rate it:

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adesse alicui or alicuius rebus (opp. deesse)to assist, stand by a person.Rate it:

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admirationem alicui movereto fill a person with astonishment.Rate it:

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aequalem esse alicuiusto be a contemporary of a person.Rate it:

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after youA gesture, usually polite, urging another person to take a turn at something ahead of the speaker.Rate it:

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Albatross Around Your NeckA person or a thing you feel like a burden and you always want to avoid and get rid of, something bad you did and want to avoid discussing or someone else recall it againRate it:

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alicui admovere tormentato have a person tortured.Rate it:

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alicui errorem demere, eripere, extorquereto undeceive a person.Rate it:

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alicui ignominiam inurereto inflict an indignity upon, insult a person.Rate it:

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alicui morem gerere, obsequito comply with a person's wishes; to humour.Rate it:

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alicui or in alicuius locum succedereto succeed a person in an office.Rate it:

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alicui periculum creare, conflareto endanger, imperil a person or thing.Rate it:

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alicuius animum commovereto touch a person's heart, move him.Rate it:

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alicuius animum pellereto make an impression on a person's mind.Rate it:

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alicuius auctoritas multum valet apud aliquemto have great influence with a person; to have considerable weight.Rate it:

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alicuius famam, laudem imminuereto detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person.Rate it:

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alicuius gloriae or simply alicui obtrectareto detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person.Rate it:

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alicuius laudes praedicareto spread a person's praises.Rate it:

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alicuius mentem turbare, conturbare, perturbareto upset a person.Rate it:

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alicuius mortui voluntas (suprema)the last wishes of a deceased person.Rate it:

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alicuius odium subire, suscipere, in se convertere, sibi conflareto incur a person's hatred.Rate it:

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alicuius opem implorareto implore a person's help.Rate it:

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aliquem (aliquid) exempli causa ponere, proferre, nominare, commemorareto cite a person or a thing as an example.Rate it:

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