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  2. To be announced - Wikipedia

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    To be announced (TBA) or to be declared (TBD) – details may have been determined, but are not yet ready to be announced. To be confirmed ( TBC ), to be resolved ( TBR ), [ 1 ] or to be provided ( TBP ) [ 2 ] – details may have been determined and possibly announced, but are still subject to change prior to being finalized.

  3. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    После дождичка в четверг (posle dojdichka v chetverg), literally "after the rain on Thursday" yet meaning never. Не видать как своих ушей (ne vidat kak svoih ushey), "not to see [something] like your ears".

  4. It ain't over till the fat lady sings - Wikipedia

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    The first known use in media appeared in the Dallas Morning News on March 10, 1976: [4]. Despite his obvious allegiance to the Red Raiders, Texas Tech sports information director Ralph Carpenter was the picture of professional objectivity when the Aggies rallied for a 72–72 tie late in the SWC tournament finals.

  5. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    To procrastinate is to put off doing something that must be done. [69] To prognosticate is to predict or prophesy. principal and principle. Principal is an adjective meaning "main" (though it can also be a noun meaning the head of a college or similar institution). Principle is a noun meaning a fundamental belief or rule of action.

  6. What's done is done - Wikipedia

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    What's done cannot be undone. – To bed, to bed, to bed!" [3] Shakespeare did not coin the phrase; it may actually be a derivative of the early 14th-century French proverb: Mez quant ja est la chose fecte, ne peut pas bien estre desfecte, which is translated into English as "But when a thing is already done, it cannot be undone".

  7. Yet - Wikipedia

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    YET, the IATA code for Edson Airport, Alberta, Canada; YET, the National Rail code for Yetminster railway station in Dorset, UK "Yet" (song) by the American band Exile, 1990 "Yet", song by Spacey Jane from Here Comes Everybody, 2022; Yett, sometimes spelt yet is a local dialect term in lowland Scotland and Cumbria for a reinforced door or gate

  8. Damning with faint praise - Wikipedia

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    Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. — "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) [5] According to William Shepard Walsh, "There is a faint anticipation in William Wycherley's Double Dealer, "and libels everybody with dull praise," but a closer parallel is in Phineas Fletcher:

  9. Things Which Have Never Yet Been Done - Wikipedia

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    "Things Which Have Never Yet Been Done" is the ninth episode of the second season, and the nineteenth episode overall, of the Canadian science fiction television series Orphan Black. It first aired in Canada on Space and the United States on BBC America on 14 June 2014. The episode was written by Alex Levine and directed by TJ Scott.