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a miss is as good as a mile »    A failure remains a failure, regardless of how close to success one has actually come.

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.

autem mort »    A married woman; also a female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity.

battle cry »    By extension, a strong motto or purpose statement, especially in regards to winning a goal in sports, games or work.

beauty sleep »    C. 1900, Ralph Connor, The Man From Glengarry, ch. 23.

beggars can't be choosers »    (proverb) When resources are limited, one must accept even substandard gifts.

best regards »    Used as a polite closing of a letter.

bring down the house »    To garner enthusiastic or wild applause.

brown thumb »    Lack of skill at growing plants; something possessed by a poor gardener.

bum steer »    Bad advice, regardless of intention.

Cannon fodder »    Military personnel who are regarded as expendable when attacking the enemy.

carry the message to Garcia »    To perform a requisite task despite obstacles.

carry the message to Garcia »    To perform a requisite task without having been informed specifically by what method to do so.

chalkface »    A musical concept or genre in which music is completely improvised and never played twice. Most often mixing elements of hip-hop, metal, punk and avant-garde jazz.

che sara sara »    Used to express a personal philosophy of fatalism1892 March 17, Cigarette,

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