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potter's clayA person or people created and shaped by God.Rate it:
potter's clayI am the potter’s clay.Rate it:
potter's clayThe clay used by a potter.Rate it:
potter's clayWe are but potter’s clay.Rate it:
potter's fieldA public place where strangers, paupers, and criminals are buried.Rate it:
potty mouthThe characteristic of regularly using vulgar language, especially strong profanities; a person having this characteristic.Rate it:
pound a beatTo walk a regular route.Rate it:
pound for poundAlternative spelling of pound-for-poundRate it:
pound of fleshSomething which is owed and which will be hurtful or difficult to provide; a debt owed to someone who is merciless and demanding.Rate it:
pound outTo perform very loudly.Rate it:
pound outTo type on a keyboard by writing quickly; to write quickly or compose a finished piece of writing quickly.Rate it:
pound outTo achieve using strength or endurance.Rate it:
pound sandTo engage in a futile activity.Rate it:
pound the pavementTo campaign diligently; to seek something, such as business, employment, or answers.Rate it:
pound the pavementTo travel on foot; to walk or run.Rate it:
pour cold water onTo belittle or dismiss; to cast doubt upon; to debunk.Rate it:
pour downTo rain heavily.Rate it:
pour down the drainto waste prior work by subsequent bad decisionsRate it:
pour forthTo emit in large quantity or large numbers.Rate it:
pour forthTo appear in large quantity or large numbers.Rate it:
pour forthTo be uttered, especially in a long flow of speech.Rate it:
pour fuel on the fireSynonym of add fuel to the fireRate it:
pour gasoline on the fireTo worsen a conflict between people; to inflame an already tense situation.Rate it:
pour honey in one's earTell someone something that they want to hear.Rate it:
pour honey into one's earTell someone something that they want to hear.Rate it:
pour inTo flow or flood into something or somewhere.Rate it:
pour inTo arrive in great amounts.Rate it:
pour inTo fill something with by pouring.Rate it:
pour oil on troubled watersTo calm something or someone who is tenacious or misbehaving.Rate it:
Pour Oil on Troubled WatersTo calm down the tense situation, to sooth someone in anger or tensionRate it:
pour one's heart outTo express one's innermost thoughts or feelings.Rate it:
pour outTo serve a drink into a cup or glass.Rate it:
pour outTo leave a place quickly, and in large numbers.Rate it:
pour outTo talk volubly and deeply. Usually implies telling the truth.Rate it:
pour your heart and soulTo do something with 100% effort; to try your best; to do something like it means a lot to you.Rate it:
powder kegA barrel containing gunpowder.Rate it:
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:

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