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absent le chat, les souris dansentwhen the cat's away the mice will playRate it:

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absent mindedforgetfulRate it:

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long absent, soon forgottenLove fades away when people are distant and don't keep close physical contact.Rate it:

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lip serviceEmpty talk; words absent of action or intention.Rate it:

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take offTo absent oneself from work or other responsibility, especially with permission.Rate it:

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fill inTo fill; to replace material that is absent or has been removed.Rate it:

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under erasureOf a bit of text, written and strickenthrough; hence, figuratively in some sense both present and absent.Rate it:

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absente reoThe defendant being absent.Rate it:

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aliquis, aliquid mihi curae or cordi estsomebody, something is never absent from my thoughts.Rate it:

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all thereMentally competent; not absent-minded or insane.Rate it:

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get lostTo be absent, to seem to be absent.Rate it:

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latch-key childA child who returns home from school to an empty house and therefore must unlock/unlatch the exterior door with a key, especially a child of working or absent parent.Rate it:

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latch-key childA child who returns home from school to an empty house and therefore must unlock/unlatch the exterior door with a key, especially a child of working or absent parent(s).Rate it:

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les absents ont toujours tortWhen absent, one is never in the right.Rate it:

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manquer à l'appelTo be missing, absent.Rate it:

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play hookeyTo be absent without permission, especially from school.Rate it:

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quand le chat n'est pas là, les souris dansentLorsque le supérieur est absent, les subalternes profitent de leur liberté.Rate it:

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quinque annos or sextum (iam) annum abesthe has been absent five years.Rate it:

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sidepiecesexDescribes extra-marital or extra-relational physically intimate interaction with one other than one's spouse or longterm partner, with whom one also has some form of established relationship; term, song, and hastag by American Activist Greshun De Bouse to describe one of the acts in which her abusive ex-fiance may have been engaged, while absent from the home daily for 15 hours.Rate it:

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under erasureOf a bit of text, written and strickenthrough; hence, figuratively in some sense both present and absent.Rate it:

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