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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
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enough to make the angels weep
Something so distressing that it causes one to lose
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and faith.
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fool's paradise
A state of happiness due to illusion or false
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goose is cooked
All
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is gone; there is no possibility of success.
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in shape
I
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to get in shape for summer swimsuit season.
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on spec
I'm writing an article on spec. I
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some magazine will buy it.
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on spec
Short form of "on speculation": Creating a work with the
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of selling it, as opposed to creating a work "on commission" for hire.
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pipe dream
fanciful
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take the wind out of someone's sails
To discourage someone greatly; to cause someone to lose
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or the will to continue.
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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
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...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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you can't say fairer than that
That is good, reasonable, or fair; one cannot
hope
for a better decision or outcome.
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