play fast and loose »
To be recklessly inaccurate, inappropriate, or otherwise ignoring guidelines and conventions.
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play hooky »
To miss school, work, or other duties without permission or an excuse.
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play one against another »
To manipulate two persons into competing against one another in a way that benefits the person carrying out the manipulation.
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poison pen »
A usually intentionally rude, spiteful, and/or condescending piece of writing directed at a person, group, lifestyle, way of thought, or other target.
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potter »
One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.
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potter »
One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots.
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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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pull the other leg »
In imperative/precative form, used to imply that the speaker does not accept or believe what another has just said.
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pull the other one, it's got bells on »
The implication is that one leg has been pulled, and the joker will have more fun with the other one due to the bells.
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pull the other one, it's got bells on »
Monty Python's Holy Grail.
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put one foot in front of the other »
To move forward, progress steadily.
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put one foot in front of the other »
To walk, decomposed to stress the fundamentality of the task.
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put oneself across »
To explain one's ideas and opinions clearly so that another person can understand them and get a picture of your personality.
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put oneself in someone's shoes »
To try to look at a situation from a different point of view; as if one were the other person. To empathise.
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quantum mechanics »
The branch of physics which studies matter and energy at the level of atoms and other elementary particles, and substitutes probabilistic mechanisms for classical Newtonian ones.
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