a good voice to beg bacon »
Said in ridicule of a bad voice.
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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 stopped clock is right twice a day »
A normally unreliable person or instrument can occasionally provide correct information, even if only by accident.
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all that glitters is not gold »
Things that appear valuable or worthwhile might not actually be so, things that look nice might not be as good as they look.
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all the tea in China »
Something priceless or invaluable.
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any way one slices it »
From any perspective; in every case.
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arm and a leg »
A relatively high price for an item or service; an exorbitant price.
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armed forces »
The Services
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at a loss »
Below the cost or price of purchase.
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at a moment's notice »
Immediately; instantaneously; without need of warning.
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autem diver »
Pickpockets who practice in churches; also churchwardens and overseers of the poor.
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back office »
The IT and infrastructure support services for a company, separate from the public face of the business.
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backseat driver »
By extension, anybody offering unsolicited or unwelcome advice.
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badge bunny »
A woman who is romantically attracted to police officers and who seeks out their companionship.
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bank night »
An event where patrons are enticed to buy entry tickets into some venue, for example a movie theater, with the anticipation that they will be entered into a drawing to win an amount of money if their ticket is drawn and they are on-site at the time of the winning.
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