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each to his own
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion or tastes.My housemate is a strict vegan. I personally could never not eat meat, but each to his own.
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to each his own
Every person is entitled to his or her personal preferences and tastes.
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other days, other ways
People of the past thought and acted differently.
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other half
A spouse.
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in other words
Stated or interpreted another way; introduces an explanation.
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the other day
Recently; lately; a few days ago.
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look the other way
To ignore something wrong. Similar to connive.
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on the other hand
From another point of view.
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pull the other leg
In imperative/precative form, used to imply that the speaker does not accept or believe what another has just said.
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turn the other cheek
To accept a punishment or an injury and not act out revenge or retaliate.
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bat for the other team
To be homosexual.
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have other fish to fry
C. 1710, Jonathan Swift, The Journal to Stella, ch. 2, Letter 15.
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have other fish to fry
To have more important things to do.
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kick with the other foot
To belong to a different religion.
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wait for the other shoe to drop
To await a seemingly inevitable event, especially one which is not desirable.
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wait for the other shoe to drop
To defer action or decision until another matter is finished or resolved.
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go in one ear and out the other
Failed to pay attention.
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pull the other one, it's got bells on
The implication is that one leg has been pulled, and the joker will have more fun with the other one due to the bells.
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pull the other one, it's got bells on
Monty Python's Holy Grail.
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put one foot in front of the other
To move forward, progress steadily.
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put one foot in front of the other
To walk, decomposed to stress the fundamentality of the task.
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the grass is always greener on the other side
Other circumstances seem more desirable than one's own but in reality are often not
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six of one, half a dozen of the other
The two alternatives are equivalent or indifferent; it doesn't matter which one we choose.
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the shoe is on the other foot
The roles of people in a situation have been reversed, such the advantage has shifted to a party which was previously disadvantaged.
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some days you get the bear, other days the bear gets you
One cannot always overcome a powerful adversary.
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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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johned up
To write or say something that doesn't make much sense to other people; inside joke.
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run down
To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them.
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bung up
To close an opening with a cork, cork like object or other improvised obstruction.
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close up
To heal a cut or other wound.
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drop back
Of a quarterback or other player in the backfield, to take a number of steps back from the line of scrimmage immediately after the snap or hike of the ball, to avoid defenders.
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read out
To read something and say the words to inform other people.
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round up
To the smallest integer that is not less than it, or to some other greater value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.
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run off with
To leave with someone with the intention of living with them or marrying them. Usually in secret because other people think it is wrong.
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take off
To absent oneself from work or other responsibility, especially with permission.
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diamond in the rough
A person whose goodness or other positive qualities are hidden by a harsh or unremarkable surface appearance.
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come about
To tack; to change tack; to maneuver the bow of a sailing vessel across the wind so that the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to position a boat with respect to the wind after tacking.
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desperate times call for desperate measures
In adverse circumstances actions that might have been rejected under other circumstances may become the best choice.
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muck out
To clean the excrement and other rubbish from the area where an animal is kept, such as a horse stable or a dog kennel.
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piece of cake
A job, task or other activity that is easy or simple to do.
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quantum mechanics
The branch of physics which studies matter and energy at the level of atoms and other elementary particles, and substitutes probabilistic mechanisms for classical Newtonian ones.
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round down
To the greatest integer that is not greater than it, or to some other lower value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.
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run away
To leave home, or other place of residence, usually unannounced, or to make good on a threat, with such action usually performed by a child or juvenile.
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run down
To read quickly a list or other short text.
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vote out
To expel the holder of an office or other position through an act of voting.
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a watched pot never boils
A process appears to go more slowly if one waits for it rather than engaging in other activities.
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across the pond
On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
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agree to disagree
To tolerate
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all and sundry
Each one.
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all that jazz
Everything else related to something; other similar things.
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