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any press is good pressBeing mentioned in the media is beneficial to the subject because it gets publicity.Rate it:

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press aheadTo continue towards an objectiveRate it:

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press chargesTo formally accuse a person of a crime, especially by an ordinary person.Rate it:

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press into serviceTo make someone perform a task or duty, especially one they are not prepared or willing to do; to make something serve a function, especially one it was not designed or intended for.Rate it:

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press onto persist, continue to advanceRate it:

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press outPress from a plastic, as of records.Rate it:

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press outExtinguish by crushing; as a cigar.Rate it:

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press outObtain from a substance, as by mechanical action.Rate it:

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press studsnap fastenerRate it:

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press the fleshTo shake hands and socialize, especially in a political gathering.Rate it:

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press the panic buttonTo start to panicRate it:

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press titsTo initiate a start up sequenceRate it:

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press upan exerciseRate it:

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stop pressThe event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of a publication, particularly of a newspaper edition.Rate it:

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the gutter pressNewspapers that depend on scandal, sex and violence to promote their sales.Rate it:

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yellow pressNewspapers which publish sensationalist articles rather than well researched and sober journalism.Rate it:

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big cheeseA very important figure, especially a high-ranking person in an organization.Rate it:

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chalk and cheeseSaid of things that are superficially alike but very different in substance.Rate it:

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cock cheesesmegma or dried semen on the glans penis usually underneath the foreskinRate it:

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cut a cheese?To Break Wind:Rate it:

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like chalk and cheeseAlternative form of different as chalk and cheese.Rate it:

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cheese downTo coil the tail of a rope on deck so as to present a neat appearance.Rate it:

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a little bit of bread and no cheesethe song of the yellowhammer.Rate it:

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cheese cutterSomeone who flatulates; especially someone who is known for their flatulation; someone who cuts the cheese.Rate it:

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cheese itA minced oath used as a warning to stop, hide, or flee.Rate it:

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cheese offTo annoy.Rate it:

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cut the cheeseTo flatulate.Rate it:

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different as chalk and cheeseTwo things which are superficially alike but very different in substance.Rate it:

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hard cheeseExpressed to someone suffering misfortune.Rate it:

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like cheese at fourpenceOf a person, to be waiting idly or timewasting.Rate it:

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more holes than a swiss cheeseSomething that has a lot of faults and problems.Rate it:

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ordered an unbelievably massive box of cheese packetsIts about a box of cheeseRate it:

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say cheeseUsed imperatively to elicit a smile from someone for a photograph by their saying "cheese" (the vowel of which, when pronounced as is usual in English, forces a somewhat smile-shaped mouth).Rate it:

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smooth as a cheese graterMeans he is really happyRate it:

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c'est le jour et la nuitThey are as different as chalk and cheese.Rate it:

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tread outTo press out with the feet; to press out, as wine or wheat.Rate it:

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a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go downAn 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.Rate it:

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bear downTo press down on someone.Rate it:

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grosse légumebig cheese, bigwigRate it:

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hunger is a good sauce(dated) Being hungry makes one less concerned about the taste of one's food.1854, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch, Vol. XXVI, Punch Publications Ltd., page 74:His bread and cheese were somewhat dry, to be sure; his ale had become flat, and considerably warmer than was desirable; but hunger is a good sauce, and thirst is not particular.Rate it:

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what's goodwhat is your problem. Example: And now back to this bitch that had a lot to say about me the other day in the press. Miley, what's good?Rate it:

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argumentum premere (not urgere)to persist in an argument, press a point.Rate it:

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avoir son pain cuitTo have one’s bread and cheese, a competency.Rate it:

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bank upTo press a mound of something against something else.Rate it:

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c'est une économie de bouts de chandelleThat is penny-wise and pound-foolish; That is spoiling the ship for a ha’porth (halfpennyworth) of tar; That is a cheese-paring policy.Rate it:

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cheeseburgerA hamburger with cheese on itRate it:

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cinq à septafternoon get-together similar to a happy hour, cocktail party, or wine and cheese, held approximately between 5 and 7 p.m.Rate it:

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daylightThe space between platens on a press or similar machinery.Rate it:

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forge aheadpress onRate it:

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forge overTo press on regardless of hindrances.Rate it:

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