drink from a firehose »
To take a small amount from an enormous, hard-to-manage quantity.
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drop a bomb »
To release faeces from the bowels; to excrete.
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drop back »
Of a quarterback or other player in the backfield, to take a number of steps back from the line of scrimmage immediately after the snap or hike of the ball, to avoid defenders.
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dummy out »
From a video game in the process of localizing that game from a foreign country.
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dust off »
To remove dust from something.
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e pluribus unum »
A national motto of the United States of America, meaning "From many, one", or "out of many, one", referring to the integration of 13 independent colonies into one country, and that has taken an additional meaning, giving the pluralistic nature of American society from immigration.
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early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise »
platitude from Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Poor Richard.
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easy street »
A carefree situation or lifestyle, especially as resulting from possession of wealth.
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empty promise »
A promise that is either not going to be carried out, worthless or meaningless.
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even Homer nods »
Not even the most vigilant and expert are immune from erring.
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even money »
By extension, an event that is somewhat likely to happen, but far from inevitable.
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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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experience is the best teacher »
Lessons learned from experience are the most lasting.
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factor space »
A space obtained from another by identification of points that are equivalent to one another in some equivalence relation.
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fade out »
A type of transition used in movies usually at the end of a scene, in which the transition fades to black from the cut.
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