a man's home is his castle »
(US) a proverbial expression of personal privacy and security
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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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an Englishman's home is his castle »
(UK) a proverbial expression of personal privacy and security
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ark ruffian »
Rogues who, in conjunction with watermen, robbed, and sometimes murdered, on the water, by picking a quarrel with the passengers in a boat, boarding it, plundering, stripping, and throwing them overboard, etc. A species of badger.
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beat up »
To verbally assault repeatedly.
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beggars can't be choosers »
(proverb) When resources are limited, one must accept even substandard gifts.
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bench jockey »
A baseball term for a player, coach or manager who is annoying and distracts opposition players and umpires from his team's dugout bench with verbal repartee.
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best laid plans »
A proverbial expression used to signify the futility of making detailed plans when the outcome is uncertain.
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deep-six »
To throw something overboard from a ship.
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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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get off one's high horse »
To stop acting in an imperious, overbearing or bossy manner.
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give 'em enough rope »
Allow one to function unhindered, or without further overbearing oversight.
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go by the board »
To estimate the velocity of a boat or ship in knots by casting overboard the knotted line to whose end is attached the lead and thereafter counting the knots in the line as it goes aft along the side boards of the vessel.
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go by the board »
To fall or to go overboard; to be cast over the side of a ship.
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go mad »
Used to indicate that the second verb represents an action that is out of character.
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