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a smoke screen
Early sea battles demonstrated the value of gun smoke and smoke from burning ships to hide one battleship from one belonging to the enemy. Later, smoke was generated prior to commencing battle so as to make it more difficult for gun crews to spot the targeted vessel. This tactic became known as a smoke screen.
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amateur hour
A situation or activity in which the participants show a lack of skill, sound judgment, or professionalism.
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at all hours
Late into the night or early morning; when people ought to be sleeping.
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beauty sleep
Sleep before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to health and beauty.[1].
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canary in a coal mine
Something whose sensitivity to adverse conditions makes it a useful early indicator of such conditions; something which warns of the coming of greater danger or trouble by a deterioration in its health or welfare.
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China syndrome
A rare disease, first characterized in the early 1990s, which resembles poliomyelitis but which has somewhat different characteristics and occurs in persons vaccinated for poliomyelitis.
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cut one's teeth
To begin; to gain early experience.
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day lark
One who gets up early in the morning or goes to bed early.
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die on the vine
To fail at an early stage or never come to fruition, typically due to neglect, infeasibility, or lack of resources.
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early bath
Being shown a red card in soccer.
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early bird
A person who wakes early or arrives early, typically before most others.
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early bird catches the worm
Alternative form of early bird gets the worm.
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early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
platitude from Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Poor Richard.
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eleventh hour
Nearly too late; the last minute.
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festive board
European reference to softwood-trenchers; {Early tableware was a wide softwood plank carved with shallow indentations for various food servings: When filled with appetizing, sumptuous portions it was referred, Festive Board
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finest hour
A point in time or a relatively brief period of time when an especially distinguished, admirable, or effective set of actions is performed.
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flash in the pan
A career notable for early success not followed by significant accomplishment.
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fork over
I forked over half the allotment this morning.
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front load
Something assigned to the early period of a project or a program, especially something burdensome.
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get a jump on
To start early, especially to start before something begins or before others begin.
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get up with the chickens
to wake up early
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hair of the dog
An alcoholic drink taken the morning after to cure a hangover or withdrawal symptoms.
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half hour
period of 30 minutes
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in its infancy
Still in an early stage.
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kitchen table software
Especially in the early years of personal computers, a set of computer programs developed by an entrepreneurial advanced amateur or self-employed professional computer programmer in his or her own home; software developed by a small business using the services of such programmers.
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knock up
In the morning as by knocking at the door; rouse; call; summon; also, to go door-to-door on election day to persuade a candidate's supporters to go to the polling station and vote. See also knocker up.
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let a thousand flowers bloom
Don't interfere with promising developments in their early stages.
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like turkeys voting for an early Christmas
Alternative form of like turkeys voting for Christmas.
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long shot
Something unlikely; something that has little chance of happening or working. The term arose from the accuracy of early ship guns, which were effective only at close range and unlikely to hit the mark at any great distance.
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man of the hour
A man who has recently caught the attention of, or is being admired or honoured by, a large number of people.
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miner's canary
Any thing, especially an organism, whose demise or distress provides an early warning of danger.
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miners' canary
Any thing, especially an organism, whose demise or distress provides an early warning of danger.
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Monday-morning quarterback
Someone who criticizes from hindsight.
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Monday-morning quarterback
To criticize from hindsight.
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morning person
A person whose who wakes up without difficulty early each morning and who is alert and active during the first part of the day.
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morning, noon and night
Constantly; ceaselessly; without stopping.
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moving along at a snail's pace
The slow start of an agenda, the maintenance of a slothful effort, spending half a day to complete a two hour job.
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night person
A person whose preference or custom is to remain awake and active during the night and the early morning hours, and who usually sleeps during part of the daytime.
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nighthawk
A person whose preference or custom is to remain awake and active during the night and the early morning hours.
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nip in the bud
To stop something at an early stage.
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oh dark hundred
Some unspecified hour in the early morning.
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oh dark thirty
Some unspecified hour in the early morning.
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opening time
hour at which a pub can start serving
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pelt of the dog
An immoderate, excessive quantity of alcohol drunk the morning after whilst suffering withdrawal symptoms or a hangover, which goes beyond alleviating the complaint to causing drunkenness; cf. hair of the dog.
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quarter of
Fifteen minutes before the next hour.
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quarter past
Fifteen minutes past any hour.
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reach an early grave
To be sentenced to death before the age of 18.
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reach an early grave
To die young. To die before the age of 80.
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reach an early grave
To resign near the start for good.
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ride shotgun
Probably arose in early-20th-century Western fiction and movies to describe an employee armed with a rifle or shotgun riding next to a stagecoach driver for protection.
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