a friend in need is a friend indeed »
A true friend is one who helps you when you are in need.
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a little bird told me »
Of information which was gathered from a source not to be overtly exposed.
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a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down »
An otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced.1999, Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253335833, page 372,One is known as the "sweetening parable," that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Thus, when the aim is to preach to the people, to guide them along the "bitter," arduous path of upholding burdensome precepts and prohibitions, a tale can lighten the load, make the "medicine" easier "to swallow."2001, Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir, Little, Brown, ISBN 0316736368, page 319,It put some fun into the tedious business of preparing for a presidential debate. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, right?2004, John Hoover, How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive... Without Killing Your Boss, Career Press, ISBN 1564147045, page 11,If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a barrel of laughs can wash down the big pills you might need to swallow.
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above and beyond »
More than is expected or required.
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according to »
Based on what is said or stated.
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account for »
To explain by relating circumstances; to show that some one, thing or members of a group are present or have been processed.
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act on »
To act decisively on the basis of information received or deduced.
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against the clock »
In a time-restricted manner, to meet a deadline, hurriedly, timed.
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agree to disagree »
To tolerate each other's opinion and stop arguing; to acknowledge that an agreement will not be reached.
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ahead of one's time »
Showing characteristics of changes yet to be; present in one's work before later advances in the field; coming earlier than could be generally accepted.
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all ears »
Listening intently; fully focused.
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all hell broke loose »
A great disaster happened or chaos ensued.
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all nations »
A composition of all the different spirits sold in a dram-shop, collected in a vessel into which the drainings of the bottles and quartern pots are emptied.
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all over the shop »
Everywhere, scattered, disorganised.
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all set »
Ready; prepared.
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