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in one's dreams
Used to express the speaker's belief that a preceding statement expressed a desired rather than an actual state of affairs.
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in your dreams
Used to express the speaker's skepticism about another's preceding statement about a desired or assumed state of affairs.
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sweet dreams
Phrase said to someone before they fall asleep, wishing them a good sleep.
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John Doe
A fictitious name used in the legal documents for an unknown or anonymous male person.
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John Doe
Any unknown or anonymous male person.
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John Hancock
One's signature.
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John Henry
One's signature.
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John Q. Public
A generic individual; some hypothetical average or ordinary citizen.
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John Thomas
The penis
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who shot john
A long and involved explanation; a thing of which an explanation would be long and involved.
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play old harry
Blenkiron and I have been moving in the best circles as skilled American engineers who are going to play Old Harry with the British on the Tigris. — John Buchan, "Greenmantle", 1916..
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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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Aaron's beard
A common name for several plants, which have tufts of stamens.[First attested in the late 19 century.]Cymbalaria muralis (ivy-leaved toadflax, Kenilworth ivy)Hypericum calycinum (great St. John's-wort, Jerusalem star)Saxifraga stolonifera (creeping saxifrage, strawberry geranium)Opuntia leucotricha (arborescent prickly pear, Aaron's beard cactus)
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Aaron's beard
Hypericum calycinum (great St. John's-wort, Jerusalem star)
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Aaron's beard
Hypericum calycinum (great St. John's-wort, Jerusalem star)
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catch-as-catch-can
A. 1681, John Fryer, Richard Chiswell, Robert Roberts, Robert White, A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters, Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672 and Finished 1681.
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come down to earth
To be brought back to reality; to lose one's dreams.
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have one's head in the clouds
To have fantastic or impractical dreams; to think impractically.
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head in the clouds
Having fantastic or impractical dreams; thinking impractically.
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Jane Doe
Female equivalent of John Doe.
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Jane Roe
Female equivalent of John Doe.
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no man is an island
All people are connected to other people and dependent on other people.1623, John Donne,
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not a sausage
John: Do you know how I get to the town center from here?.
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pie in the sky
A belief that one's wildest dreams shall come true. A devotee, of pie in the sky is prone to believe the most impossible possibility. The taller the tale you can spin, the greater chance he'll buy into it!
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proverbs come in pairs
Alternative form of proverbs run in pairs.1979, Irving Howe, John Hollander, David Bromwich, Literature as Experience: An Anthology, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ISBN 0155511130, page 325:Sometimes proverbs come in pairs, the first one providing the context, the second, the revision.
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throw dirt enough, and some will stick
If enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at [1] on 14 Oct 06.I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics (1994), p. 10,Archbishop Whately used to say
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tomorrow is another day
Tomorrow will bring new opportunities and a fresh start for one's endeavors.1600, author unknown, "Phillidaes Love-call to her Coridon, and his replying" (song), in England's Helicon, printed at London by I.R. for John Flasket:Phil. Yonder comes my Mother, Coridon,whether shall I flie?Cor. Under yonder Beech my lovely one,while she passeth by.Say to her thy true-Love was not heere,remember, remember,to morrow is another day:1896, Amelia E. Barr, A Knight of the Nets, ch. 8:"Well, well, my dear lass, to-night we cannot work, but we may sleep. . . . Keep a still heart tonight, and tomorrow is another day."1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, ch. 63:"Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."2005, Fran Schumer, "JERSEY: In Princeton, Taking On Harvard's Fuss About Women," New York Times, 19 June (retrieved 18 Aug. 2009):"Half of me is depressed
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winkle out
Tom managed to winkle the truth out of John eventually.
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wits' end
A. 1911, John Muir, in John Muir and Michael P. Branch, John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa, 2002, page 138.
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yellow brick road
A proverbial path to a Promised Land of one's hopes and dreams.
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you're never too old to learn
It is possible to learn new things, at any age; (implying) follow your desires and dreams
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