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  2. Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball

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    A rain check at CVS, shown below the empty shelf for the sold-out item. This rain check never expires, as opposed to the original sale. [97] Originally, a ticket given to a spectator at an outdoor event providing for admission at a later date (in lieu of a refund of entrance money), should the event be interrupted by rain.

  3. Raining cats and dogs - Wikipedia

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    rain that beats kids Romanian: plouă cu broaşte: raining frogs plouă de sparge: breaking with rain plouă cu găleata: raining from a bucket Russian: льет как из ведра: it's pouring like from a bucket Scottish Gaelic: an t-uisge cho garbh ris na faochagan: the rain as rough as whelks: an dìle bhàite: the drowning deluge ...

  4. Glossary of baseball terms - Wikipedia

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    An informal term referring to a hypothetical line drawn at a 45 degree angle from the front plane of the #rubber to the first base line. It can be used as a reference point to determine whether a left handed pitcher legally stepped at first base while attempting a pickoff.

  5. Minnie Driver Claims ‘Hard Rain’ Producers Said She ... - AOL

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    Minnie Driver said during a recent interview on Jameela Jamil’s “I Weigh” podcast that producers on her 1998 disaster movie “Hard Rain” allegedly told her not to wear a wetsuit while ...

  6. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Urban Dictionary Screenshot Screenshot of Urban Dictionary front page (2018) Type of site Dictionary Available in English Owner Aaron Peckham Created by Aaron Peckham URL urbandictionary.com Launched December 9, 1999 ; 25 years ago (1999-12-09) Current status Active Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in ...

  7. Graupel - Wikipedia

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    Graupel (/ ˈ ɡ r aʊ p əl /; German: [ˈɡʁaʊpl̩] ⓘ), also called soft hail or hominy snow or granular snow or snow pellets, [1] is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets in air are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes, forming 2–5 mm (0.08–0.20 in) balls of crisp, opaque rime.

  8. Slang dictionary - Wikipedia

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    A slang dictionary is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of slang, which is vernacular vocabulary not generally acceptable in formal usage, usually including information given for each word, including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.

  9. 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).