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act out
To go through the process of a
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from a play, a charade or a pointless exercise.
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a leopard cannot change its spots
One cannot change one's own nature.1597, William Shakespeare, Richard II Act i,
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1 (First Folio):King. Lyons make Leopards tame.Mowbray. Yea but not change his ?pots.1611, King James Version of the Bible, Jeremiah 13:23:Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe Chapter 32:End now all unkindness. Let us put the Jew to ransom, since the leopard will not change his spots, and a Jew he will continue to be.1918, Johnston McCulley, Thubway Tham's Inthane Moment:The leopard cannot change his spots, old boy.
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eat someone out of house and home
C. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II
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fade out
A type of transition used in movies usually at the end of a
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, in which the transition fades to black from the cut.
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l'esprit de l'escalier
The experience of thinking of a devastating rejoinder only after leaving the
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of the debate.
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long shot
A master shot, the primary wide shot of a
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into which the closeups will be edited later.
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so quiet one can hear a pin drop
Said during a lull in a normally bustling place or
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speak of the devil
An expression sometimes used when a person mentioned in the current conversation happens to arrive on the
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