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bring overUsed other than as an idiom: see bring, over.Rate it:

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bring overTo cause to change allegiance or point of view.Rate it:

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bring owls to athensForgive me, then, for bringing owls to Athens as a thanks-offering. — Goethe, in a letter to Wilhelm von Humboldt.Rate it:

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bring owls to athensWho brings owls to Athens? — Euelpides, in Aristophanes' Birds.Rate it:

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bring toTo restore consciousness.Rate it:

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bring toTo make something equal to a different amount.Rate it:

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bring toTo turn into the wind; to check the course of by trimming the sails so as to counteract each other.Rate it:

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bring to a boilTo heat something until it reaches its boiling point.Rate it:

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bring to heelTo be forced to obey.Rate it:

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bring to heelTo force someone to obey.Rate it:

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bring to lightTo expose or disclose something that was hidden or unknown.Rate it:

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bring togetherTo cause people to do something together; to bring about togetherness.Rate it:

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bring uprearRate it:

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bring up againstTo cause someone to have to solve a problem or deal with an issue.Rate it:

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bring up toTo raise so that it reaches a particular standard or minimum requirement.Rate it:

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come to lifeto become alive, bring into existenceRate it:

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jack of all trades, master of noneA 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.Rate it:

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kill with kindnessheaping generosity, compassion, or excessive favor on someone -usually in response to an insult- to bring them discomfort; to overwhelm with overindulgenceRate it:

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pay the freightTo bear the cost.Rate it:

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put somebody in his placeTo bring somebody down; to humble or insult.Rate it:

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Straw that Broke Camel's BackOne last mistake leading to previous calamity or trouble, not able to bear more than one’s capacity,Rate it:

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take onTo acquire, bring in, or introduce.Rate it:

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come to lifeto bring back to life; revitalize, revive, resurrectRate it:

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borne outPast participle of bear out.Rate it:

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culpam alicuius rei sustinereto bear the blame of a thing.Rate it:

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cut downTo bring down by cutting.Rate it:

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drag outTo haul or bring out forcefully or as though with force.Rate it:

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draw outTo extract, bring out, as concealed information; elicit; educe.Rate it:

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misery loves companyMisery is easier to bear when one is not the only one miserable.Rate it:

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stand upTo bring something up and set it into a standing position.Rate it:

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Cook Your GooseTo bring someone down, spoil someone’s quality time or to wreck a happy plan or projectRate it:

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force someone's handBring about a situation which necessitates an agent to act, often causing a plan to be executed prematurely.Rate it:

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run upTo bring a flag to the top of it's flag pole.Rate it:

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potluckQuaint {American ?} social gathering, mayhaps hosted by an entity. Attendees bring 'dish to pass'; {Luck of Pot} 'Purpose'; Good Food, Goodwill, Good-Gab:Rate it:

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smell of the lampTo bear marks of great study and labor.Rate it:

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warm the cockles of someone's heartTo provide happiness, to bring a deeply-felt contentment.Rate it:

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do bears shit in the woodsAlternative form of does a bear shit in the woodsRate it:

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self fulfilling prophecyAn expectation can bring about an outcome.Rate it:

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verbum satUsed to bring something to a conclusion, implying that further comment is unadvisable or unneeded.Rate it:

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a me impetrare non possum, utI cannot bring myself to...Rate it:

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ad sanitatem adducere, revocare aliquemto bring some one back to his senses.Rate it:

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ad senatum referre (Cic. Dom. 53. 136)to bring a question before the senate (of the presiding magistrate).Rate it:

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ad summum perducereto bring to the highest perfection.Rate it:

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aestus et frigoris patientem esseto be able to bear heat and cold.Rate it:

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agmen claudere, cogereto bring up the rear.Rate it:

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aliquem affligere, perdere, pessumdare, in praeceps dareto bring a man to ruin; to destroy.Rate it:

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aliquem ex altissimo dignitatis gradu praecipitare (Dom. 37. 98)to depose, bring down a person from his elevated position.Rate it:

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ante oculos ponere aliquidto bring a thing vividly before the eyes.Rate it:

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applaudir un acteur à tout rompreTo applaud an actor so as to bring the house down (to lift the roof).Rate it:

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aquam ducere per hortumto bring a stream of water through the garden.Rate it:

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