a cold day in Hell »
An event that will never happen.
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a dumb priest never got a parish »
(Irish) Those who fail to speak up fail to get what they want.
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a number of »
Several of.
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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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a rolling stone gathers no moss »
A person who never settles in one place will never be successful.A person who does not keep active will grow mouldy.
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a watched kettle never boils »
Alternative form of a watched pot never boils.
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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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about turn »
An about face; a military command to a formation of soldiers to reverse the direction in which they are facing.
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above the law »
Exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else.
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according to »
According to him, every person was to be bought. - Thomas Babington Macaulay.
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after all »
in spite of everything
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all and sundry »
All, everyone.
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all good things come to an end »
Nothing lasts forever.
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all in all »
everything considered
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all over hell's half acre »
All over the place; everywhere.
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