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Do not put all your eggs in one basket; Do not put the cart before the horse; Do not put too many irons in the fire; Do not put new wine into old bottles; Do not put off until tomorrow what you can do today; Do not rock the boat; Do not shut/lock the stable door after the horse has bolted; Do not spend it all in one place
An idiom dictionary may be a traditional book or expressed in another medium such as a database within software for machine translation.Examples of the genre include Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, which explains traditional allusions and proverbs, and Fowler's Modern English Usage, which was conceived as an idiom dictionary following the completion of the Concise Oxford English ...
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).
Teaching grandmother to suck eggs; Tell it to the Marines; Tempest in a teapot; There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip; Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones; Throw to the wolves; Tip of the tongue; To rob Peter to pay Paul; Toe the line; Tongue-in-cheek; Too cheap to meter; The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse; Trial ...
When Ree first used her new stand mixer, she said she made no less than seven batches of this dough. They're the "key to Ladd's happiness," thanks to their "dark and magical, chewy and dense" texture.
We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In his memoir, "Time to Thank: Caregiving for My Hero" (Post Hill Press), actor Steve Guttenberg writes about his ...
A couple of other expressions are quand les poules auront des dents ("when hens have teeth") [20] and quand les coqs pondront des œufs ("when roosters lay eggs"). An expression, today falling into disuse, is la semaine des quatre jeudis ("the week of the four Thursdays"), as in "that will happen (or not) during the week of the four Thursdays ...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said "anything can happen" when asked about the chances of going to war with Iran during his next term in an interview with Time, coinciding with his being named ...