take someone's point »
To grasp the essential meaning of what a person is saying.
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take upon »
To take charge of an item of business, or an obligation, as a personal initiative.
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talk down »
To negotiate a lower price.
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talk turkey »
To talk or negotiate plainly, frankly, or seriously.
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that's the way life is »
That is the way things happenCertain things cannot be changed, helped or improved; struggle and objection are pointless.1935, Louis Bromfield, The Man Who Had Everything [1], page 279:That's the way life is, and there's no use trying to go against it.1979, Jay Edward Abrams, A Theology of Christian Counseling: More Than Redemption [2], ISBN 0310511011, page 45:There are no standards, no values; that's the way life is. Learn to accept it and slide with it. Stop fighting it.2002, B. Eugene Ellison, Rings of the Templars, ISBN 059524050X, page 337:Shit happens; that's the way life is. In fact, I want you to take an additional thousand for your efforts.
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there are plenty more fish in the sea »
There are many more potential opportunities available.
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there are plenty of fish in the sea »
There are many more potential opportunities available.
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toss-upness »
The quality of being a toss-up, usually used in reference to a toss-up state in American presidential elections.
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under one's hat »
Concealed; confidential; secret.
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when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's easy to forget that the initial objective was to drain the swamp »
Only because it seems so urgent.
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worth the risk »
The benefit of the success is more valuable than the problems caused by the potential loss.
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