blood is thicker than water »
Family relations and loyalties are stronger than relationships with people who are not family members.1866, Anthony Trollope, The Belton Estate, ch. 30,Blood is thicker than water, is it not? If cousins are not friends, who can be?circa 1915, Lucy Fitch Perkins, The Scotch Twins, ch. 5,The old clans are scattered now, but blood is thicker than water still, and you're welcome to the fireside of your kinsman!
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chicken feed »
A very small or insignificant quantity, especially of money.
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chicken feed »
Food given to poultry.
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chicken out »
To shy away from a daring task; to decline, refuse, or avoid something due to fear or uncertainty.
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chickens coming home to roost »
Consequences visited upon someone who originally had appeared to escape them.
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choke the chicken »
To masturbate.
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don't count your chickens before they're hatched »
You should not count on something before it happens.
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donkey jacket »
thick garment
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in the thick of it »
In a precarious situation.
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mother hen »
A female chicken who bears eggs or chicks.
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no spring chicken »
Said of a person who is no longer particularly young.
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pachyderm »
A member of the obsolete taxonomic group Pachydermata, grouping of thick-skinned, hoofed animals such as the rhinoceros, hippopotamus, elephant, pig and horse.
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pachyderm »
Someone with thick skin. It is used for animals such as an elephant or a hippopotamus.
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pope's nose »
The tail end piece of a cooked chicken.
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rubber-chicken dinner »
A formal dinner or event thrown by politicians to raise funds.
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the plot thickens »
Used, often ironically, to describe an increasingly complex or mysterious situation.
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thick and thin »
Both good and bad times.
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thick as thieves »
Intimate, close-knit.
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throw dirt enough, and some will stick »
If enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at [1] on 14 Oct 06.I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics (1994), p. 10,Archbishop Whately used to say
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