a closed mouth gathers no feet »
One who does not speak can be certain he won't say anything embarrassing.
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an apple a day keeps the doctor away »
Apples are healthy and stave off illness.Eat healthy and you won't get sick.
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beat Banaghan »
An Irish saying of one who tells wonderful stories, or of something which is amazing and remarkable.
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better than sex »
Superlative; wonderful.
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bowl over »
To overwhelm with astonishment or wonder; to flabbergast.
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cry for help »
In her second year at the school Alexis stopped doing her homework and would often scribble on walls. Her teachers wondered whether this was a cry for help, or if she was simply misbehaving.
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easy come, easy go »
Easily won and easily lost; usually said when resigned to a loss.
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fall in line »
C. 2004, Career Soldiers, "Won't Waste My Life".
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hole in one »
Any rare, wonderful, or remarkable accomplishment.
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if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle »
(colloquial, vulgar, humorous) It is fruitless to speculate about counterfactual situations."We would have won the match if we'd had a decent goalkeeper.""And if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle!"
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if the mountain won't come to Muhammad »
"If one cannot get one's own way, one must bow to the inevitable.".
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live it up »
To have a wonderful life; to live fully and have fun.
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nine day wonder »
Something that generates interest for a limited time and is then abandoned.
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once you go black, you never go back »
An expression assuming that once a person of another race gets in a sexual relationship with a black person they won't return to their own race.
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one-hit wonder »
A musical performer or musical group known for a single hit song, especially after failing at later attempts at success.
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