a house is not a home »
A home is not merely a building but requires inhabitants and a friendly atmosphere.
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accident of birth »
Reference to the fact that various benefits or detriments to the life of a person arise from the circumstances into which that person was born, these being entirely beyond his control.
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arm's length »
Barely within reach.
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beat down »
To severely beat someone up.
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beat someone's brains out »
To beat someone very severely.
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bite someone's head off »
To severely berate someone.
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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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cast off »
To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.
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catch dust »
To be rarely used.
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catch hell »
Be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten.
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catch it »
Be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten.
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count on »
To rely upon, trust, or expect.
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crocodile tear »
A tear shed insincerely, in a false display of sorrow or some other emotion.
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dead as a doorknob »
Entirely, unquestionably or certainly dead.
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divide and conquer »
A combination of political, military and economic strategies that aim to gain and maintain power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.(computing) Applied to various algorithms, such as quicksort, that solve a problem by splitting it recursively into smaller problems until all of the remaining problems are trivial.(as imperative, proverb) In order to rule securely, don't allow alliances of your enemies.
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