a camel is a horse designed by a committee »
An expression critical of committees
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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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about time »
Far past the desired time.
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ace of spades »
The playing card belonging to the spades suit and featuring one pip.
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ache for »
To desire, or want something, or someone, very much.
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against all odds »
Despite seemingly insurmountable opposition or probability.
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aim at »
To design for a particular audience.
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all hell breaks loose »
Vi A place or state of fury, turmoil, destruction, or chaos.
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Apa Sâmbetei »
"for nothing", "to no result", or that what you have done was destroyed or is rendered useless after you finish it.
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ask for the moon »
To claim or desire something that one cannot have.
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avant la lettre »
An example of a term before the term was coined. Describing a term used anachronistically.
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bad taste in one's mouth »
A feeling something is morally despicable as to cause nausea.
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bat for both sides »
To be a batter for both teams in an amateur baseball game.
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be at one's beck and call »
To be in the position of serving someone in any way they desire, usually unwillingly.
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better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all »
Having experience of love, even if it ended, is better than having no experience of love.Love is worthwhile despite the pain involved in separation.
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