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| to admit your error and apologize |
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| an item you purchase without having seen; a disappointment |
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| promising at the start but then disappointing |
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| to pour oil on troubled waters |
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| to make pease, to calm someone down |
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| to beard the lion in his den |
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| to visit and oppose a person on his own ground |
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| to win the approval of the majority |
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| disreputable part of town, inhabited by derelicts and people "on the skid" |
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| to come to no practical result |
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| to throw down the gauntlet |
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| to be in charge, to be master |
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| the goods, tools, and other requisites of a profession |
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| to take the conceit out of a braggart |
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| to make a big fuss over someone |
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| a skeptic, one who is not easily convinced |
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| day of happiness, time for rejoicing |
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| to let well enough alone, to avoid stirring up old hosilities |
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| a famous law case or controversy |
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| one swallow does not make a summer |
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| don't jump to conclusions based on imcomplete evidence |
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| having a selfish motive in the background |
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