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  2. English-language idioms - Wikipedia

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    An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).

  3. Nicholas Klein - Wikipedia

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    Klein's words are often summarized as "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win", and misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi, [6] [7] who made different remarks to a similar effect in a 1920 speech at Muzaffarabad, included in Freedom’s Battle. [a] A possible precursor [9] is "All truth passes through three ...

  4. Wikipedia : Language learning centre/5000 most common words

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    This process will be sped up if creating sentences using multiple words from the list to construct sentences like "They think it is time to go" - "Ellos piensan que es hora de irse" in Spanish for instance. It is important to learn words in a given context and will make the words easier to remember.

  5. United we stand, divided we fall - Wikipedia

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    In the song "Hey You" (performed and written by the band Pink Floyd), a similar term with the same meaning, "Together we stand, divided we fall," is used as the final lyrics. Tupac Shakur used the line "united we stand, divided we fall." in the song "Last Wordz" of his second album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. featuring Ice Cube and Ice-T.

  6. List of military slang terms - Wikipedia

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    The meaning is that something undesirable is going to happen again and that there is not much else one can do other than just endure it. The Log , the humour magazine written by and for Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy , featured a series of comics entitled "The Bohica Brothers", dating back to the early 1970s.

  7. Fighting words - Wikipedia

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    In 2004, the High Court considered the meaning of a statutory offence of using insulting words in a public place. [12] Justices Gummow and Hayne held that in the context of the section, '"abusive" and "insulting" should be understood as those words which, in the circumstances in which they are used, are so hurtful as either they are intended to ...

  8. Carvalho faults alleged actions of school safety worker who ...

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    They, too, had seen cellphone video of the incident. One witness said that more than a dozen students appeared to be filming what they thought would be a fist fight or maybe a beating.

  9. Wikipedia:Don't fight fire with fire - Wikipedia

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    In aggressively confronting him, you have allowed the boor to infect you. So based on these instances, we can conclude that " an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind ". Instead of trying to burn the offending user's face, try pouring a nice cold bucket of water over the flames and show them the proper way to behave.