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four-eyesA person who wears spectacles.Rate it:

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four sheets to the windExtremely drunkRate it:

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four score and seven years agoAs an opener, a sometimes sarcastic indicator to indicate a past event being mentioned is particularly important.Rate it:

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avoir une brioche au fourhave a bun in the ovenRate it:

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vous viendrez cuire à mon fourSome day you will need my assistance.Rate it:

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four-leaf cloverA bringer of good luckRate it:

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ce n'est pas pour vous que le four chauffeAll these preparations are not for you.Rate it:

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cette pièce a fait fourThat piece was a failure, a frost.Rate it:

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être au four et au moulinTo be all over the place; be in two places at once.Rate it:

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faire un fourTo make a blunder.Rate it:

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Four Corners of the EarthFrom all across the world, from all over the placeRate it:

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Four Horsemen of the ApocalypseFour beings in Revelation 6:1-8 that bring about the Apocalypse, each riding a different-colored horse representing a different aspect of the Apocalypse.Rate it:

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Four Horsemen of the ApocalypseHarbingers of doom; several signs which combine to imply the imminence of literal or figurative destruction.Rate it:

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four posterbedRate it:

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four score and seven years ago87 years prior to today.Rate it:

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four-leaf cloverAn uncommon variation of the clover, having four leaves instead of the usual three.Rate it:

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four-leaf cloverA bringer of good luck.Rate it:

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four-on-the-floorRelating to a vehicle with a four-speed manual transmission mounted beside the driver on the floor of the vehicle.Rate it:

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four-on-the-floorA four-speed manual transmission whose gearshift lever is mounted beside the driver on the floor of the vehicle.Rate it:

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four-on-the-floorCharacterised by a steady, uniformly accented beat with a 4/4 time signature.Rate it:

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four-on-the-floorA steady, uniformly accented beat with a 4/4 time signature.Rate it:

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il fait noir comme dans un fourIt is as dark as pitch.Rate it:

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on ne peut être au four et au moulinOne cannot be in two places at the same time.Rate it:

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avoir les yeux battusTo look tired about the eyes.Rate it:

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bedroom eyesEyes that have a sexually suggestive expression.Rate it:

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dusky eyesGrey beautiful Eyes that seem to express much feelings.Rate it:

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Eyes in the Back of Your HeadTo be able to imagine and feel what is happening behind or outside of one's field of visionRate it:

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feast for the eyesVisually pleasing sight.Rate it:

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ground ball with eyesA weakly hit ground ball that barely evades the infielders.Rate it:

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snake eyesTwo ones, after rolling two dice.Rate it:

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stars in one's eyesThe state of being overly or extremely impressed with something; enchanted with romance.Rate it:

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eyes closed all earsto listen to high fidelity music in the fullest senseRate it:

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baby bluesBlue eyes.Rate it:

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elle fait la carpe pâmée (fam.)She turns up the whites of her eyes; She pretends to be ill; She looks like a dying duck in a thunderstorm.Rate it:

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have eyes bigger than one's stomachTo take more food on one's plate than one can eat; to be greedy.Rate it:

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Sight for Sore EyesA pleasant and good surprise, an unexpected thing that can relieve you of your troubleRate it:

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deer in the headlightsA mental state of high arousal caused by anxiety fear, panic, surpriseand/or confusion, or substance abuse. The behavioral signs are like a deer subjected to a car's headlights, such as widely opened eyes and a lack of motor reactions.Rate it:

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familiarity breeds contemptThe more acquainted one becomes with a person, the more one knows about his or her shortcomings and, hence, the easier it is to dislike that person.1894, H. Rider Haggard, The People Of The Mist, ch. 25:This was the beginning of evil, for if no man is a hero to his valet de chambre, much less can he remain a god for long in the eyes of a curious woman. Here, as in other matters, familiarity breeds contempt.Rate it:

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slop bowlOne of the four components of the traditional tea set. Tea drinkers emptied their unwanted, cold tea into the slop bowl before refilling their cups with fresh, hot tea.Rate it:

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blue moonThe third full moon in a quarter that contains four rather than the usual three full moons.Rate it:

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easy on the eyesAttractive; beautiful.Rate it:

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painful on the eyesUgly, disagreeable to look at.Rate it:

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beauty lies in the eyes of the beholderAlternative form of beauty is in the eye of the beholderRate it:

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believe one's eyesTo believe that something which one directly sees is truly the case.Rate it:

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la lumière me tire les yeuxThe light hurts my eyes.Rate it:

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passer à pleines voiles à travers les mailles de la justiceTo drive a coach-and-four through an Act of Parliament.Rate it:

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red rideranother name for "War", one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.Rate it:

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squint like a bag of nailsTo squint very much, as though one's eyes were directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails.Rate it:

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In the LimelightAll eyes on someone, all focus and attention on particular person or thingRate it:

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lever les yeux au cielto roll one's eyesRate it:

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