brown bread »
Bread with a brown colour as distinct from white bread, wholemeal, granary or other specific types of bread.
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den of iniquity »
A place of immoral behavior, usually of a sexual type.
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dummy up »
To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
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fade out »
A type of transition used in movies usually at the end of a scene, in which the transition fades to black from the cut.
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fifth wheel »
A type of trailer hitch, which consists of a horseshoe-shaped plate on a multi-directional pivot, with a locking pin to couple with the kingpin of a truck trailer.
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fine print »
The details, restrictions, terms, or conditions, especially of a contract, often printed in very small type.
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good old boy »
A friendly, unambitious, relatively uneducated, sometimes racially biased white man who embodies the stereotype of the folksy culture of the rural southern USA.
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hardball »
In baseball, a type of ball and baseball game, as opposed to softball.
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lead »
A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
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light middleweight »
type of boxer
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middle of the road »
Of a type of melodic popular music that has wide appeal.
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not on your tintype »
An answer indicating outright rejection or denial; no way; absolutely not.
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second nature »
A mindset, skill, or type of behavior so ingrained through habit or practice that it seems natural, automatic, or without a basis in conscious thought.
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slip on »
shoe type; to try out
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smoke signal »
A type of flare or combustion device sometimes used as a distress signal.
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