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  2. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    Arabic has a wide range of idioms differing from a region to another. In some Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, one would say إذا حجت البقرة على قرونها idha ḥajjit il-bagara `ala gurunha ("when the cow goes on pilgrimage on its horns"). In Egypt, one says في المشمش fil-mishmish ("when the

  3. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    One hand washes the other; One kind word can warm three winter months; One man's meat is another man's poison; One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter; One man's trash is another man's treasure; One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb; One might as well throw water into the sea as to do a kindness to rogues

  4. List of Latin phrases (O) - Wikipedia

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    one world: seen in The Legend of Zorro: ordo ab chao: out of chaos, comes order: one of the oldest mottos of Craft Freemasonry. [3] (oremus) pro invicem (Let us pray), one for the other; let us pray for each other: Popular salutation for Roman Catholic clergy at the beginning or ending of a letter or note. Usually abbreviated OPI.

  5. Quid pro quo - Wikipedia

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    The Latin phrase quid pro quo originally implied that something had been substituted, meaning "something for something" as in I gave you sugar for salt.Early usage by English speakers followed the original Latin meaning, with occurrences in the 1530s where the term referred to substituting one medicine for another, whether unintentionally or fraudulently.

  6. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Antiptosis – type of enallage in which one grammatical case is substituted for another. Antistrophe – repeating the last word in successive phrases, for example (from Rhetorica ad Herennium), "Since the time when from our state concord disappeared, liberty disappeared, good faith disappeared, friendship disappeared, the common weal ...

  7. List of Latin phrases (I) - Wikipedia

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    in one's own person: For one's self, for the sake of one's personhood; acting on one's own behalf, especially a person representing themselves in a legal proceeding; abbreviated pro per. See also pro se: litigant in person, pro se legal representation in the United States. [3] in principio erat Verbum: in the beginning was the Word

  8. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    One year with another; on an average. "Common" here does not mean "ordinary", but "common to every situation" communibus locis: in common places: A term frequently used among philosophical and other writers, implying some medium, or mean relation between several places; one place with another; on a medium.

  9. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous. The standard test for synonymy is substitution: one form can be ...