at peace with »
Not menacing or hostile toward.
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avant la lettre »
An example of a term before the term was coined. Describing a term used anachronistically.
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bite to eat »
A snack or quick meal.
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bring back »
To reenact an old rule or law.
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cross the line »
To overstep a boundary, rule, or limit; to go too far or do something unacceptable.
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cure all »
panacea
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dead »
Completely inactive; without power; without a signal.
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dumb down »
To become simpler in expression or content; to become unacceptably simplistic.
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emperor's new clothes »
Something obvious and embarrassing that is politely ignored or that goes unacknowledged.
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goof off »
To dawdle; to engage in idle activity or inactivity.
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knacker's yard »
A place to send a person or object that is spent beyond all reasonable use.
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knacker's yard »
That area of a slaughterhouse where carcasses unfit for human consumption are rendered down to produce useful materials such as glue.
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lay down »
To specify, institute, enact, assert firmly, state authoritatively, establish or formulate .
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lose one's touch »
To lose one's special mastery of or knack for a particular skill or activity.
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no dice »
An unacceptable alternative.
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off the mark »
Inaccurate; not correct or appropriate.
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oil burner »
A heating device which burns fuel oil; an oil furnace.
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on the back burner »
Not immediate; inactive; receiving less than full or regular attention.
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out of reach »
Inaccessible or unattainable.
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play fast and loose »
To be recklessly inaccurate, inappropriate, or otherwise ignoring guidelines and conventions.
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pour oil on troubled waters »
To calm something or someone who is tenacious or misbehaving.
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put words in somebody's mouth »
To attribute to somebody something he or she did not say; to claim inaccurately that somebody said or intended something.
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snake oil »
A fraudulent, ineffective potion or nostrum; panacea.
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stand by »
To do nothing. To be inactive in a situation.
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stir-crazy »
By extension, restless, uncomfortable, or impatient due to inactivity.
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take a bite »
To eat a quick, light snack.
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the terrorists will have won »
Phrase used following a description of an activity to indicate that if that activity is not continued or carried out, those who seek to disrupt normal activities through terror will have succeeded, an which is an unacceptable result.
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there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace »
Even if a person is in his or her senior years, with gray hair, he or she can still have ambition and energy, especially sexual energy.
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throw off »
To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
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too big for one's britches »
Disturbingly confident, unacceptably cocky.
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wide of the mark »
Inaccurate.
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