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jack up
To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for f** up.
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jack up
To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
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jack in
To stop doing a regular activity. Often a job or studies.
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jack in
To insert an electronic coupling into a receptacle; to connect to something, whether involving a physical medium or not.
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jack up
To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates. See also jack up the price.
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jack-tar
Alternative spelling of jacktar.
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every man jack
All the members of a group with no exceptions.
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jack it in
An imperative to stop doing something that the speaker finds annoying.
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jack of all trades
One competent in many endeavors, especially one who excels in none of them.
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every jack has his jill
everybody will find someone to have a romantic relationship with at some point in their life
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before you can say jack robinson
Very quickly. Quicker than you expect.
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all work and no play makes jack a dull boy
Too much focus on one's career is often viewed unfavorably.Too much hard work and not enough leisure time can be unhealthy.
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jack of all trades, master of none
A person who has a competent grasp of many skills but who is not outstanding in any one.
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jack of all trades, master of none
A master of integration, who knows enough from many learned trades and skills to be able to bring their disciplines together in a practical manner; a polymath; a renaissance man.
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cockney slang
London slang most common in London, uk
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factotum
Jack of all trades.
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proverbs run in pairs
Every proverb seems to be contradicted by another proverb with an opposed message, such as "too many cooks spoil the broth" and "many hands make light work."1863, Sir Richard Burton, Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains, vol. 1, Tinsley (London), p. 309:Moreover, all the world over, proverbs run in pairs, and pull both ways: for the most part one neutralizes, by contradiction, the other.
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tomorrow is another day
Tomorrow will bring new opportunities and a fresh start for one's endeavors.1600, author unknown, "Phillidaes Love-call to her Coridon, and his replying" (song), in England's Helicon, printed at London by I.R. for John Flasket:Phil. Yonder comes my Mother, Coridon,whether shall I flie?Cor. Under yonder Beech my lovely one,while she passeth by.Say to her thy true-Love was not heere,remember, remember,to morrow is another day:1896, Amelia E. Barr, A Knight of the Nets, ch. 8:"Well, well, my dear lass, to-night we cannot work, but we may sleep. . . . Keep a still heart tonight, and tomorrow is another day."1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, ch. 63:"Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."2005, Fran Schumer, "JERSEY: In Princeton, Taking On Harvard's Fuss About Women," New York Times, 19 June (retrieved 18 Aug. 2009):"Half of me is depressed
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