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in spite of his statureThe person was tall and huskyRate it:

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In the LimelightAll eyes on someone, all focus and attention on particular person or thingRate it:

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jack offAn annoying person or one who has committed a transgression with no or insufficient apology; a jerk, an asshole.Rate it:

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lap dogA person who behaves in a servile manner, such as a sycophantic employee or a fawning lover.Rate it:

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laugh a minuteA funny thing or person.Rate it:

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lucky starSomething that appears to give a person luckRate it:

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one to talkA person who hypocritically criticizes others for a fault that he/she also has.Rate it:

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one-man bandAn organisation or business that is effectively run by only one person.Rate it:

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pack heatTo carry one or more handguns on one's person, especially in a concealed manner.Rate it:

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poison-pen letterA missive which is malicious, insulting, and/or defamatory toward a person, organization, or point of view, especially one which is unsigned.Rate it:

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read outTo read some data and inform the person using the device.Rate it:

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rock houndA person who collects rocks and minerals from the natural environment as a hobby.Rate it:

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stone's throwA short distance, roughly equivalent to how far a person can throw a stone.Rate it:

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take to the cleanersTo take a significant quantity of a person's money or valuables, through gambling, unfavorable investing, fraud, litigation, etc.Rate it:

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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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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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admodum adulescens, senexstill quote a young (old) man.Rate it:

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adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunthe is a young man of great promise.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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