a few sandwiches short of a picnic »
Exhibiting disquiet or unsoundness of mind; not sane; mad.
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a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step »
even the longest and most difficult ventures have a starting point
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a picture is worth a thousand words »
Alternative form of a picture paints a thousand words.
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a picture paints a thousand words »
A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description.1971, David Gates (of Bread), If, from Manna album:If a picture paints a thousand wordsThen why can't I paint you;The words will never showThe you I've come to know.1989, Alan Kay, quoted in K?o-tung Huang, Timothy D. Huang, Introduction to Chinese, Japanese and Korean Computing, World Scientific, ISBN 9971506645, p. 9:Most human beings, no matter how familiar they are with abstract symbols, respond to voice and images better than written language. In other words, A picture paints a thousand words.2006, Paul Shakespeare, Building a Dune Buggy: The Essential Manual, ISBN 1904788734, p. 52:See accompanying diagram: a picture paints a thousand words, and all that!
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against the grain »
To sand or plane a piece of wood parallel or nearly parallel to the fibers such that splinters forming ahead of the tool originate below the cutting surface.
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bat a thousand »
To achieve perfection.
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bat a thousand »
To achieve success at each attempt.
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bat a thousand »
To reach first base on every at-bat.
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bite of the reality sandwich »
A wake-up call, a reality check.
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head-in-the-sand »
Exhibiting disregard or denial of a problem or threat.
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knuckle sandwich »
A punch to the face, especially to the mouth.
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line in the sand »
A defining moment, a cutoff point.
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one thousand »
Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which each iteration is sequentially numbered and supposed to be approximately one second in length.
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out of house and home »
Cassandra Chrones Moore, Haunted Housing: How Toxic Scare Stories Are Spooking the Public Out of House and Home.
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pound sand »
To engage in a futile activity.
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