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    John 1:1 (redirect from Prologue to John)
    Which it is said, In the beginning was the Word. For when we give expression to something which we know, the word used is necessarily derived from the...
    52 KB (7,417 words) - 13:25, 23 June 2024
  • Look up Indian giving in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. "Indian giver" is a pejorative expression used to describe a person who gives a "gift" and later...
    6 KB (605 words) - 14:15, 3 May 2024
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    Boże and Jak Bóg da are similar expressions to the South Slav versions. They mean "God, give" and "if God will give/allow". In Romanian, Să dea Dumnezeu...
    9 KB (1,026 words) - 19:15, 6 July 2024
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    a more current use to describe equivalent exchanges. In 1654, the expression quid pro quo was used to generally refer to something done for personal gain...
    19 KB (2,402 words) - 08:42, 30 June 2024
  • In linguistics, a phatic expression (English: /ˈfætɪk/, FAT-ik) is a communication which primarily serves to establish or maintain social relationships...
    19 KB (2,384 words) - 07:11, 3 March 2024
  • piss?', when referring to an individual who takes above and beyond what is thought acceptable, similar to the expression, 'give them an inch and they take...
    7 KB (913 words) - 06:31, 27 March 2024
  • "Give me the man and I will give you the case against him" (Polish: Dajcie mi człowieka, a paragraf się znajdzie; translated to English more literally...
    14 KB (1,408 words) - 20:37, 1 June 2024
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    Rosenwald for giving him the phrase. The September 1916 edition of the Auburn Seminary Record printed another early use of the expression. "[Hugh K. Walker]...
    12 KB (1,160 words) - 01:04, 20 June 2024
  • Johnny & the Expressions was a group fronted by Johnnie Matthews. They had a hit with "Something I want to Tell You". Some sources state that the lead...
    5 KB (352 words) - 11:40, 6 June 2023
  • I'll Give You Something to Remember Me By is an album led by pianist John Hicks, recorded in 1987. The album was recorded in Monster, The Netherlands...
    2 KB (137 words) - 14:47, 15 November 2023
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    another slang expression for something very easy or it's a cinch. Easy peasy, a childish expression for something very easy. Expressions with a stronger...
    13 KB (1,781 words) - 17:59, 24 June 2024
  • of languages worldwide that incorporate expressions related to this phenomenon. Upon encountering something cute, the activity of the orbitofrontal cortex...
    19 KB (2,123 words) - 21:20, 14 June 2024
  • Something to Remember is a compilation album by American singer Madonna, released by Maverick Records on November 3, 1995. The album was conceived after...
    78 KB (6,559 words) - 07:25, 23 June 2024
  • movement) before that something was recognized and named, e.g., "a post-modernist avant la lettre", "a feminist avant la lettre". The expression literally means...
    110 KB (15,276 words) - 12:09, 25 June 2024
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    Elephant in the room (category Metaphors referring to elephants)
    The expression "the elephant in the room" (or "the elephant in the living room") is a metaphorical idiom in English for an important or enormous topic...
    14 KB (1,712 words) - 12:31, 31 May 2024
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    October 9, 2014. Martin, Gary (1996). "The meaning and origin of the expression: Talk to the hand ('cause the face ain't listening)". The Phrase Finder. Retrieved...
    3 KB (396 words) - 21:27, 20 February 2024
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    Nigger in the woodpile (category Metaphors referring to people)
    disclosed—something suspicious or wrong". Commonly used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its usage has since drastically declined owing to its use...
    17 KB (1,836 words) - 23:53, 8 July 2024
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    known as sacres (singular: sacre; French: sacrer, "to consecrate"), are words and expressions related to Catholicism and its liturgy that are used as strong...
    25 KB (2,985 words) - 19:22, 9 July 2024
  • the whole string, the empty string, or something in between) which has been consumed by the parsing expression; this prefix is what one would usually...
    46 KB (6,426 words) - 09:43, 16 May 2024
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    "unlike a patent, a copyright gives no exclusive right to the art disclosed; protection is given only to the expression of the idea—not the idea itself...
    13 KB (1,762 words) - 14:39, 1 May 2024
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