- context. For example, "lead foot" may
describe a fast driver; lead is
proverbially heavy, and a foot
exerting more
pressure on the
accelerator causes a...
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phase of the moon. In 1552,
Richard Huloet wrote: Hony mone, a term
proverbially applied to such as be
newly married,
which will not fall out at the first...
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greatest dramatic intensity in a book
musical are
often performed in song.
Proverbially, "when the
emotion becomes too
strong for speech, you sing; when it becomes...
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world and
there abide... The
whirling dance or Sufi
whirling that is
proverbially ****ociated with
dervishes is best
known in the West by the practices...
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intent upon neither, and
profits not." The homo
unius libri is
indeed proverbially formidable to all
conversational figurantes. Like your sharp-shooter...
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provide further children. She
successfully set
about restoring order in
proverbially restless Aquitaine, and
continued in her
royal duties as
Angevin queen...
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means that more "trips to the bank" are
necessary to make withdrawals,
proverbially wearing out the "shoe leather" with each trip. Menu cost With high inflation...
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Hares are
proverbially timid and a
number of
fables have been
based on this behaviour. The best known,
often titled "The
Hares and the Frogs", appears...
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tears shed by
Pamphilus at the
funeral of Chrysis, it came to be used
proverbially in the
works of
later authors, such as
Horace (Epistulae 1.XIX:41). hinc...
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became synonymous with cold and
frosty poetry, and was used in this
sense proverbially. (Schol. ad Eurip. Orest. 1375, ad Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1304; Zenob. iv...
