across the board »
Pertaining to all categories or things.
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birds of the feather flock together »
People who are alike physically tend to congregate and socialize together, despite government efforts at forced integration.
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blanket term »
A word or phrase that is used to describe multiple groups of related things. The degree of relation may vary. Blanket terms often trade specificity for ease-of-use; in other words, a blanket term by itself gives little detail about the things that it describes or the relationships between them, but is easy to say and remember. Blanket terms often originate as slang, and eventually become integrated into the general vocabulary.
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break up »
To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.
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come to »
To regard or specify, as narrowing a field of choices by category.
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dead end »
A path or strategy that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end.
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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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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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game plan »
Any strategy devised to reach a given objective.
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grey area »
An area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories where the border between the two is fuzzy.
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jack of all trades, master of none »
A master of integration, who knows enough from many learned trades and skills to be able to bring their disciplines together in a practical manner; a polymath; a renaissance man.
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neither fish nor fowl »
Said of something not easily categorized or not fitting neatly into any established group.
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part and parcel »
An integral or essential piece; that which must be done or accepted as part of something else.
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prawn cocktail offensive »
A strategy of the Labour Party in winning over important people in the world of finance.
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round down »
To the greatest integer that is not greater than it, or to some other lower value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.
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