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hedge one's bets
To place bets with a third party in order to offset potential losses.
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hedge one's bets
To reduce the risk of making a mistake, by keeping one's options open.
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live by the sword, die by the sword
One who uses violence can expect a violent response. It is better to try to use peaceful means wherever possible.(figuratively) One can expect dire outcomes from any vice; used to convey poetic justice.
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by the by
Used to introduce a new topic; incidentally.
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by hook or by crook
By any means possible; one way or another.
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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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take the bull by the horns
To confront a difficulty, rather than avoiding it.
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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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by the book
In a manner which adheres strictly to rules, legal requirements, or official procedures.
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by the numbers
To do something exactly, precisely, or in a formulaic way.
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by the time
When.
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by the way
His mother will be coming for dinner tomorrow, and, by the way, she volunteered to bring dessert.
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by the way
Incidentally; a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has already happened.
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by the way
[...] I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years. But this is by the way.
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by-the-book
Adhering strictly to rules, legal requirements, or official procedures.
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by-the-numbers
Done in a predictable manner; formulaic.
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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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fall by the wayside
To fail to be completed, particularly for lack of interest; to be left out.
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by the same token
For a similar reason; in a similar manner; similarly; likewise; along the same lines.
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cheaper by the dozen
Things are handled more efficiently as a group, rather than individually.
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get by the balls
To have complete control over someone, especially of a woman abusing a man's infatuation with her.
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go by the board
To be superseded, rejected, or obliterated; to pass by with little consequence; to amount to nothing.
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go by the board
To estimate the velocity of a boat or ship in knots by casting overboard the knotted line to whose end is attached the lead and thereafter counting the knots in the line as it goes aft along the side boards of the vessel.
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go by the board
To fall or to go overboard; to be cast over the side of a ship.
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go by the wayside
To become obsolete or outmoded.
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before you can say jack robinson
Very quickly. Quicker than you expect.
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by the grace of god
By divine right.
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by the grace of god
Used as part of the titles of royalty.
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by the skin of one's teeth
Barely; closely; by a narrow margin; with nothing to spare.
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have someone by the short hairs
To have someone in a difficult situation in which he or she is without alternatives and can be controlled.
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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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a man is known by the company he keeps
People are similar in character to their friends.
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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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abide by
To accept a decision or law and act in accordance with it; to conform to; to acquiesce; as, to abide by an award.
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come by
To obtain; to get, now especially by chance or involuntarily.
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go by
To pass, to go past, without much interaction.
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pass by
To proceed past something.
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put by
To preserve food by canning, freezing, drying, etc.
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run by
To repeat some information.
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stand by
To remain loyal or faithful.
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swear by
To wholeheartedly trust.
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abide by
To remain faithful to something or someone; to stand to; to adhere.
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