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  2. List of religious slurs - Wikipedia

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    Bible thumper United States: Christian people Someone perceived as aggressively imposing their Christian beliefs upon others. The term derives from preachers thumping their hands down on the Bible, or thumping the Bible itself, to emphasize a point during a sermon. The term's target domain is broad and can often extend to anyone engaged in a ...

  3. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    If wealth is lost, nothing is lost. If health is lost, something is lost. If character is lost, everything is lost; If wishes were horses, beggars would ride; If you're growing in age, then you're nearing to the graveyard; If you cannot be good, be careful; If you cannot beat them, join them; If you cannot live longer, live deeper

  4. List of military slang terms - Wikipedia

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    Time magazine used the term in their June 16, 1942, issue: "Last week U.S. citizens knew that gasoline rationing and rubber requisitioning were snafu." [5] Most reference works, including the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, supply an origin date of 1940–1944, generally attributing it to the United States Army. [citation needed]

  5. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    The verb affect means "to influence something", and the noun effect means "the result of". Effect can also be a verb that means "to cause [something] to be", while affect as a noun has technical meanings in psychology, music, and aesthetic theory: an emotion or subjectively experienced feeling. [10] [11] [12]

  6. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    something that happens only once; limited to one occasion (as an adjective, a shared synonym is one-shot; as a noun ["She is a one-off"; US: one of a kind]) on the back foot outclassed; outmanoeuvred by a competitor or opponent [126] on the piss

  7. Margaret Utinsky - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Elizabeth Doolin "Peggy" Utinsky (August 26, 1900 – August 30, 1970) [1] was an American nurse who worked with the Filipino resistance movement to provide medicine, food, and other items to aid Allied prisoners of war in the Philippines during World War II.

  8. Say Something - Wikipedia

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  9. Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball

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    Perhaps derived from this, the term "whiff" has also come to mean trying and failing at something. Also see "swing and miss". "After Richardson whiffed on the question, Joe Biden parked it". [136] "Yahoo and MSN each whiffed on six questions. There was only one question that baffled all the search engines". [137]