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s'il pleut le jour de st. médard, il pleut quarante jours plus tard. s'il pleut le jour de st. gervais, il pleut quarante jours après“St Swithin’s day, gif ye do rain For forty days will it remain.”Rate it:

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satellite townA new town planned and built to serve a particular local industry, or as a dormitory or overspill for people who work in a nearby metropolis. Such satellite towns include Port Sunlight near Birkenhead (Cheshire, England), built to house workers at Lever Brothers soap factories.Rate it:

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screw offTo fail to do one's work; to goof off.Rate it:

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screw-offSomeone who often fails to do his or her work; someone known to goof off.Rate it:

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see you tomorrowUsed as a farewell, stating that the speaker and interlocutor will see each other the next day.Rate it:

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sell oneselfTo work as a prostitute.Rate it:

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set one's shoulder to the wheelTo start hard work; to begin to toil.Rate it:

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set tobegin workRate it:

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sick noteSomeone who dodges work because of sickness, implying they are faking it.Rate it:

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sign onThe time of day when a radio or television station begins broadcasting, usually after being off the air for several hours.Rate it:

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singulis annis, diebusyear by year; day by day.Rate it:

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slack offTo be deliberately unproductive in one's work or study.Rate it:

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slave awayTo work very hard.Rate it:

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sleep onTo consider after a period of sleep, implying a decision will be made the next day.Rate it:

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sleep on itTo postpone a decision until the following day to avoid making a hasty choice.Rate it:

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slug awayTo work very hard (at); to toilRate it:

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smell the barnTo experience heightened anticipation or to act with renewed speed or energy as one approaches a destination, goal, or other desired outcome, like a livestock animal at day's end returning to its barn.Rate it:

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snowed underHave too much work.Rate it:

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some rights reservedThe owner, or other copyright holder, of a work simultaneously reserves a number of copyright-related rights and waives a number of other copyright-related rights.Rate it:

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spin offTo create as a by-product or a secondary derived work.Rate it:

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stand on one’s headTo try to impress someone by performing difficult feats or through hard workRate it:

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step up one's gameTo improve one's performance, or the quality of one's work.Rate it:

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stranger on the phoneDr. Greshun De Bouse's brilliant true account of a present-day angel in female human form who uplifts and changes lives of countless downtrodden men whom have never seen her, via telephone through the power of Biblical scripture and the Holy Spirit.Rate it:

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supremo vitae dieon one's last day.Rate it:

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suspend one's disbeliefTo willingly accept the premise of a story or work of art for the sake of enjoying it.Rate it:

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suss outTo manage to work out, to determine.Rate it:

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taillable et corvéable à merciheavily taxed; enslaved to do onerous workRate it:

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talking headA pundit who discusses issues of the day, especially one on TV.Rate it:

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team playerAn individual who is known to work or play well as a member of a team and put team goals before personal gain.Rate it:

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tel qui rit vendredi dimanche pleureraSorrow treads on the heels of mirth; Laugh to-day and cry to-morrow.Rate it:

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that dog won't huntThat idea will not work; that is an inadequate explanation or proposition.Rate it:

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the enemy of my enemy is my friendAlthough I dislike and/or disagree with you, for the time being we should work together against a common threat.Rate it:

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the holy of holiesThe most private room in the house. "This is my husband's holy of holies where he can work without being disturbed." The Holy of Holies was the name given to the innermost apartment of the Jewish Temple, where the Ark of the Covenant was kept. Only the high priest could enter this room on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur).Rate it:

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throw a sickieTo take a day off from work, supposedly because of ill health. The illness could be either real or feigned.Rate it:

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time offA period of time where one is not required to work.Rate it:

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tous les deux jours; de deux jours l'unEvery other day.Rate it:

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toute la sainte journéeThe whole blessed (or, livelong) day.Rate it:

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trancher (or, couper) dans le vif(lit.) To cut to the quick; (fig.) To set to work in earnest.Rate it:

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trancher dans le vif(lit.) To cut to the quick; (fig.) To set to work in earnest.Rate it:

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travailler à la tâcheTo work by the piece.Rate it:

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travailler à prix fait (or, à forfait)To work at an agreed price; To work by the piece.Rate it:

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turn roundTo process; to complete work on, especially with a view to sending it on in a finished state.Rate it:

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turn tricksTo work as a prostitute, providing sexual services for money.Rate it:

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ubi illuxit, luxit, diluxitwhen it was day.Rate it:

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un peu d'aide fait grand bienMany hands make light work.Rate it:

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une épingle par jour fait huit sous par anA pin a day is a groat a year.Rate it:

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use your noodleUse your brains and work it out yourselfRate it:

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vent out one's blood, sweat and tearsA person's determination and hard work.Rate it:

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veritatem imitari (Div. 1. 13. 23)(1) to make a lifelike natural representation of a thing (used of the artist); (2) to be lifelike (of a work of art).Rate it:

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vicissitudines dierum noctiumquethe succession of day and night.Rate it:

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