a bad workman always blames his tools »
It is not the tools we use which make us good, but rather how we employ them.
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a gentleman and a scholar »
An admirable person.
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a good man is hard to find »
Men who make good husbands or workers are rare.
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a man is known by the company he keeps »
People are similar in character to their friends.
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a man's home is his castle »
(US) a proverbial expression of personal privacy and security
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a new broom sweeps clean »
New management will often make radical changes.
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a picture paints a thousand words »
A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description.1971, David Gates (of Bread), If, from Manna album:If a picture paints a thousand wordsThen why can't I paint you;The words will never showThe you I've come to know.1989, Alan Kay, quoted in K?o-tung Huang, Timothy D. Huang, Introduction to Chinese, Japanese and Korean Computing, World Scientific, ISBN 9971506645, p. 9:Most human beings, no matter how familiar they are with abstract symbols, respond to voice and images better than written language. In other words, A picture paints a thousand words.2006, Paul Shakespeare, Building a Dune Buggy: The Essential Manual, ISBN 1904788734, p. 52:See accompanying diagram: a picture paints a thousand words, and all that!
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a scholar and a gentleman »
An admirable person.
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able seaman »
ordinary sailor
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abominable snowman »
yeti
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about turn »
An about face; a military command to a formation of soldiers to reverse the direction in which they are facing.
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according to »
In a manner conforming or corresponding to; in proportion.
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according to Hoyle »
In strict accordance with the rules, especially of card games; in the proper or expected manner.
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against the clock »
In a time-restricted manner, to meet a deadline, hurriedly, timed.
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along the lines »
In a general direction or manner.
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