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a carpet-baggerA candidate for election who has no roots or interest in the constituency he wishes to represent. The original meaning was a Unionist financier or adventurer who exploited the cheap labour in the American South after the Civil War. The carpet bags carried by these adventurers were made of carpet material.Rate it:

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boot campAny short, intensive course of training.Rate it:

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boot campA short, intensive, quasi-military program generally aimed at young offenders as an alternative to a jail term.Rate it:

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egregiam operam (multum, plus etc. operae) dare alicui reito expend great labour on a thing.Rate it:

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for all intensive purposesMisconstruction of “for all intents and purposes”.Rate it:

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for all intensive purposesFor all highly demanding purposes.Rate it:

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ICUIntensive care unit.Rate it:

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inanem laborem suscipereto lose one's labour.Rate it:

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join forcesto combine labour, to come together, to uniteRate it:

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Labour of LoveTo do something free of money, work done for love and pleasure, not for the sake of moneyRate it:

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labour of loveUK spelling of labor of love.Rate it:

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operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumereto lose one's labour.Rate it:

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operam (laborem, curam) in or ad aliquid impendereto expend great labour on a thing.Rate it:

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operam alicui rei tribuere, in aliquid conferreto expend great labour on a thing.Rate it:

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prawn cocktail offensiveA strategy of the Labour Party in winning over important people in the world of finance.Rate it:

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res est multi laboris et sudoristhe matter involves much labour and fatigue.Rate it:

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sweat equityAn investment of labour, typically by the owner and often his or her family, usually in a small business or personal residence that increases the value of the business or residence.Rate it:

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third degreeIntensive rough interrogation in order to extract information or a confession.Rate it:

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tractor outTo dismiss while replacing manual labour with tractors.Rate it:

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what the deuceAn intensive form of what.Rate it:

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what the fuckAn intensive form of what.Rate it:

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what the hellAn intensive form of what. this sense?)Rate it:

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