autem gogler »
Pretended French prophet.
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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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blind »
Any device intended to conceal or hide; as, a duck blind.
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bridge »
An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.
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bridge »
Cue for extended or tedious shots. Also called a spider.
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carry a torch for »
[2] To harbor feelings of love despite not being in a relationship; generally unrequited or after a relationship has ended, and sometimes implying secret feelings. There is the implication of keeping hope alive.
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caught with one's hand in the cookie jar »
Observed or apprehended while committing a theft, especially while embezzling money.
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dead air »
An unintended interruption in a radio broadcast during which there is no sound; a similar interruption of a television broadcast in which there is neither sound nor a video signal.
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do justice »
To really allow to be apprehended in its full scope.
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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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guilt trip »
Remarks intended to produce such a feeling.
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his back is up »
He is offended or angry; an expression or idea taken from a cat; that animal, when angry, always raising its back. An allusion also sometimes used to jeer a crooked man.
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hoist by one's own petard »
To be hurt, or destroyed by one's own plot or device, of one's own doing which one intended for another; to be "blown up by one's own bomb".
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joe job »
An act of e-mail spamming where the sender's identity and address are those of an innocent third party, intended either to tarnish that person's reputation or to flood that person's e-mail with bounces.
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knock-on effect »
A secondary, often unintended effect.
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