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powder kegAn explosive or otherwise volatile situation.Rate it:
power behind the throneSomeone who appears to be without special status, but who has great covert influence on a person in authority.Rate it:
Power behind the ThroneThe actual force or person behind ones success, the real person in chargeRate it:
power chordA chord or combination of notes used in rock music and typically selected to sound good at high volume and high levels of distortion. Power chords make extensive use of intervals such as open fourths and fifths.Rate it:
power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutelyThe corrupting influence of power is total when one's power is total.Lord Acton see: WikiquoteRate it:
power downTo switch off.Rate it:
power napA short sleep taken in the daytime in order to refresh a person and generally terminated before deep sleep begins so as not to leave the sleeper drowsy.Rate it:
power offTo turn off, to cut the power to.Rate it:
power onTo turn on.Rate it:
power pointelectrical socketRate it:
power upTo turn the electrical power on to a device as a precondition to make it operational.Rate it:
power upTo become ready for operation as a result of the provision of electrical power.Rate it:
powers that beThe holders of power or the authorities in a given situation, especially as seen as being faceless or unreasonably bureaucratic.Rate it:
practice makes perfectIf one practices an activity enough, one will eventually master it.Rate it:
practice what you preachTo practice what you preach means to do as you say. To live by example.Rate it:
practice, practice, practiceemphatic guidance on the importance of practice to learning a skill or similarRate it:
practise makes a man perfectDo more practice and hard work to gain something that you want....Rate it:
praise to the skiesto laud excessivelyRate it:
prawn cocktail offensiveA strategy of the Labour Party in winning over important people in the world of finance.Rate it:
pray tellPlease explain (something the requester does not yet understand).Rate it:
pray tellExpressing incredulity, please explain (some claim or position the speaker doubts).Rate it:
prayer's were answeredA desperate, seemingly impossible request is grantedRate it:
pre-warDescribing the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.Rate it:
pre-warDescribing the period before a war.Rate it:
pre-warDescribing the period before the outbreak of World War II in 1939.Rate it:
preach to deaf earsTo attempt to persuade a party that does not wish to listen or cannot be altered in its conviction.Rate it:
preach to the choirSpeaking as if to convince a person or group of something which that person or group already believes.Rate it:
preaching to the choirStating a value or opinion that is already a strongly-held value or opinion of the listener or audience.Rate it:
preprogramTo predispose to certain thoughts or behaviours.Rate it:
preprogramTo program something in advance.Rate it:
present company exceptedThese negative remarks do not pertain to anyone who is currently listening to them (including the speaker).Rate it:
present company excludedAlternative form of present company exceptedRate it:
present daycurrentRate it:
presistKeep's GoingRate it:
press aheadTo continue towards an objectiveRate it:
press chargesTo formally accuse a person of a crime, especially by an ordinary person.Rate it:
press into serviceTo make someone perform a task or duty, especially one they are not prepared or willing to do; to make something serve a function, especially one it was not designed or intended for.Rate it:
press onto persist, continue to advanceRate it:
press outExtinguish by crushing; as a cigar.Rate it:
press outObtain from a substance, as by mechanical action.Rate it:
press outPress from a plastic, as of records.Rate it:
press studsnap fastenerRate it:
press the fleshTo shake hands and socialize, especially in a political gathering.Rate it:
press the panic buttonTo start to panicRate it:
press titsTo initiate a start up sequenceRate it:
press upan exerciseRate it:
pressed for timein a hurry, without spare time.Rate it:
pretty as a pictureVery pretty, very cuteRate it:
pretty passAn unsatisfactory situation.Rate it:
pretty pennyA considerable amount of money; a high price or a high income.Rate it:

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