a miss is as good as a mile »
A failure remains a failure, regardless of how close to success one has actually come.
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a riddle wrapped up in an enigma »
Something very mysterious and hidden.
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balls-up »
Something which becomes muddled or botched in some way.
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bang on about »
To keep talking endlessly about the same subject.
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barrel »
A 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.
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beddy-bye »
Bedtime for a toddler, going to sleep, going to bed.
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better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness »
In the face of bad times or hopelessness, it is more worthwhile to do some good, however small, in response than to complain about the situation.
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bone idle »
lazy
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born with a silver spoon in one's mouth »
Note. The original nautical expression is just born with a silver spoon and describes those young gentlemen who were able to enter the Royal Navy without examination and whose promotion was assured. the converse was born with a wooden ladle.
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break out »
To separate from a bundle.
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bum steer »
Bad advice, regardless of intention.
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bundle of energy »
One who is especially lively, continually active, or industrious.
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bundle of energy »
The energy associated with being lively, continually active, or industrious.
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bundle of joy »
A newborn baby.
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bundle of joy »
A pet.
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