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some people have all the luckSuggests that someone is enjoying more success than they deserve.Rate it:

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soporte pictóricoSoporte pictórico es la superficie sobre la que se aplica el color de una pintura. Cumple la misión de portar el fondo y las capas de pintura. Los soportes más usuales son: paredes, tablas de madera, de lienzo, pergamino o papel.Rate it:

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South TibetUsed other than as an idiom: see south, Tibet. (the southern part of Tibet)(in particular, in the People's Republic of China) Those areas located south of the McMahon Line, which are now administered by the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, and which were formerly part of the Tibetan cultural area.Rate it:

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stake outTo watch a location and/or people, generally covertly.Rate it:

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stiff upper lipThe quality of being resolute and showing self-restraint, associated with stereotypical British people.Rate it:

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Stir up a Hornet's NestTo stimulate or stir people to get angry or annoyed, to cause a great problem, to invite dangerRate it:

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suffer fools gladlyTo be tolerant of stupidity or incompetence in other people.Rate it:

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swim with sharksTo operate among dangerous people.Rate it:

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tag teamTwo or more people or groups acting alternately to accomplish some task.Rate it:

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take out the trashTo forcefully remove people from a place.Rate it:

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take this job and shove ita way of telling your boss that you are quitting your job; something people say before they quit their job or about quitting their jobRate it:

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talk of the townA subject discussed by many people.Rate it:

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task forceA group of people working towards a particular task, project, or activity, especially assigned in a particular capacity.Rate it:

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Thatcher's childrenPeople who grew up or were born in the United Kingdom during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990) and who adopted the ideology of Thatcherism.Rate it:

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the beast with two backsTwo people engaged in sexual intercourse.Rate it:

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the conference was attended by people from all walks of lifeit means the conference was attended by people from different parts of the worldRate it:

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the devil looks after his ownBad people often prosper unfairly, because the devil helps them.Rate it:

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the good die youngWell-regarded people who are morally upright, kind, and beneficent tend to die at a younger age than do most people.Rate it:

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the grass is always greener on the other sideWhen one views other people's lives or situations as better than your own.Rate it:

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the jetset wayThe JetSet Way is the only way. People who live this way are straight alpha/sigma males and have the ability at will to ethically attain any and every woman they shall desire, own any car they shall want, wear whatever brand clothes they want, get VIP access everywhere and will spend more time on planes traveling to foreign countries than they do at their home. The Jet Set Way was coined by JetSetFly (also known as Josh King Madrid) himself.Rate it:

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the more the merrierIt is more fun with more people.Rate it:

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the natives are restlessA group of agitated people—such as a set of residents, customers, or citizens—is expressing annoyance, distress, or other discomposure.Rate it:

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the one who always envies someone in society, will never live in gaietyThis idiom means that if a person spends time complaining, criticizing and whining about what everyone else does, owns, or how successful other people are about their financial situation, job career, or results they get, instead of focusing and trying their best to improve one's situation, the only consequence is that this behavior will keep them in the guts, that is, at a lower life level than the one they wish to be.Rate it:

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the qualityThe upper class, the high society, the gentry; the people of quality.Rate it:

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the shoe is on the other footThe roles of people in a situation have been reversed, such the advantage has shifted to a party which was previously disadvantaged.Rate it:

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the whole world and his dogEverybody; too many people; a huge crowd.Rate it:

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there must be something in the waterThere are so many cases of something; there are so many people or things doing a particular thing or having a certain trait.Rate it:

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there's no accounting for tasteWhen it comes to subjective matters of taste, people have wildly different opinions.Disagreements about matters of taste can't be objectively resolved.Rate it:

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there's no accounting for tastesDifferent people like different things The world would be incomplete if everyone were alike. Diversity is essential.Rate it:

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there's no such thing as a stupid questionUsed to encourage people to seek knowledge by asking questions, no matter how silly the questions may appear to be.Rate it:

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there's nowt so queer as folkNothing is as strange as people can be.Rate it:

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third personThe words, word-forms, and grammatical structures, taken collectively, that are normally used of people or things other than the speaker or the audience.Rate it:

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Three StoogesA group of three stupid people.Rate it:

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throw dirt enough, and some will stickIf enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at on 14 Oct 06.I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics (1994), p. 10,Archbishop Whately used to say Rate it:

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tigre americanoFelino sudamericano de gran tamaño, el mayor del mundo tras el león y el tigre y una de las cuatro especies capaces de rugir gracias a la peculiar conformación de su hioides. Es distintiva su piel moteada con rosetas de color negro sobre fondo dorado, aunque existen ejemplares con melanismo, completamente negros. Son predadores solitarios, que cazan en la selva y junto a los ríos, sin tener competencia de ninguna otra especie en su ecosistema. Su mordida es especialmente poderosa, adaptada para partir el cráneo o el cuello de sus presas, incluso bestias de gran tamaño como la anaconda.Rate it:

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tijereta de las pajas. Ave paseriforme nativa de la región subtropical de América del Sur, hoy reducida a la cuenca del Paraná medio; de pequeño tamaño, alcanzando el macho los 30 cm de largo y la hembra unos 20. Tiene la cabeza negra, así como el dorso y el pecho, con el vientre blanco; en la hembra la banda pectoral es más clara, y la cola muestra una orla parda. La cola es extraordinariamente elongada y de color negro. El cuello está desprovisto de plumas, y se torna rojo brillante durante la época de celo. En grave retroceso por la destrucción de su hábitat, está considerado vulnerable por la IUCN y consta en el Apéndice I de CITES.Rate it:

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time and tide wait for no manpeople cannot stop the passing of time, and therefore we should not delay doing thingsRate it:

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time out of mind1) The distant past beyond memory 2) A time in the past that was so long ago that people have no knowledge or memory of it.Rate it:

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tiny but mightysmall but powerful; something people say to express self-worth that even though they may be small they make up for it in being mighty; don't underestimate me/usRate it:

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Tom, Dick or HarryAnybody or everybody; random or unknown people.Rate it:

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too many cooks spoil the brothIf too many people try to take charge at a task, the end product might be ruined.Rate it:

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Too Many Cooks Spoil the BrothMore number of people working on a particular project will worsen itRate it:

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top brassA group of people who are the leaders or heads of an organization.Rate it:

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tórtola cordilleranaMetriopelia melanoptera melanoptera Mide unos 23 cm, es de color café grisáceo con tintes oliváceos Vive en toda el área cordillerana chilena desde el norte hasta Aysén.Rate it:

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tortolita de la punaMetriopelia aymara Mide unos 17 cm, es de color café a gris por encima y por debajo tiene un tono concho de vino. Es un ave de la Puna, pero su hábitat se extiende bastante lejos al sur y alcanza hasta Coquimbo en Chile y Mendoza por Argentina; por el norte abarca zonas de la Puna del Perú y Bolivia.Rate it:

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tortolita quiguaguaColumbina cruziana Mide unos dieciocho cm y es de color gris un poco más claro que la tortolita cuyana a la cual se parece mucho. Vive en Ecuador y Perú, y en las quebradas del Norte Grande chileno.Rate it:

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tortolita rojiza) De un gris azulado en las partes superiores de la cabeza, el color es rojo canela y más oscuro sobre el lomo. Mide unos 17 cm de largo. Vive en la Amazonía y en zonas arbustivas de Argentina, Paraguay, Brasil, Perú y Bolivia. En Chile aparece accidentalmente.Rate it:

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touchy-feelyHaving a fondness for physical contact with other people, especially to an excessive degree.Rate it:

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trailer park trashLower-class people who live in trailer parks.Rate it:

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trickle downTo pass from high-ranked people to lower-ranked peopleRate it:

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