blow this pop stand »
To exit or remove oneself from a less than exciting location or environment.
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blow this popsicle stand »
To leave an establishment speedily.
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blow up »
To explode something or somebody or destroy something or injure or kill somebody by explosion.
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blow up »
To become popular very quickly.
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blue moon »
A long time.
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blue moon »
Something absurd.
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blue-eyed boy »
Someone's favourite, especially a young one.
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bluewash »
To tout a business or organization's commitment to social responsibility, and to use this perception for public relations and economic gain; to present a humanitarian front in this manner.
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boil down »
As an allusion to the cooking technique of reducing liquids by heat, one boils down a problem, argument, etc. to its most central elements.
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bone of contention »
Something that continues to be disputed; something on which no agreement can be reached.
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booby prize »
A prize or status, often unwelcome, awarded as a joke or disincentive to the loser of a contest or for poor performance.
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boot camp »
A short, intensive, quasi-military program generally aimed at young offenders as an alternative to a jail term.
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borganism »
An organization of autonomous organisms that exhibit collectivism: individual "units" that have merged to yield a unified construct. Such an amalgam may possess a collective consciousness, arguably an emergent phenomenon of social networking.
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borganism »
Some forms of government.
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born with a silver spoon in one's mouth »
Note. The original nautical expression is just born with a silver spoon and describes those young gentlemen who were able to enter the Royal Navy without examination and whose promotion was assured. the converse was born with a wooden ladle.
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