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| Kill two birds with one stone. |
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| Good wife and wise mother |
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| Neck and neck / Evenly matched |
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| contradiction, contradictory concept |
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| To live long and happily without bad deeds |
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| Lacking resolve / can't stick to anything for more than three days |
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| a preconceived notion, prejudice, stereotype (often wrong) |
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| a narrow escape / by the skin of one's teeth / to barely survive |
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| It's unanimous. / Unanimity |
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| It's the season of high sky and plump horses (Autumn is good) |
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| Good triumphs over evil. / Good deeds are praised and evil is punished. / The righteous prosper. |
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| A faithful wife (who has suffered with you through thick and thin) |
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| a wrong or irrelevant answer / You're asked which way is east, and answer west |
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| gibberish, nonsense, incoherent speech |
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| To play two sides against each other |
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| to be half asleep / to be in a daze / to be in a trance / to feel like you're dreaming |
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| Like father, like son. / To look like one's parents / To be a carbon copy / Apple doesn't fall far from the tree |
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| Three days cold, four days warm. |
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| The student has surpassed the teacher. / The student has become the master. |
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| to walk in circles, to be confused, to be mixed-up (Lit: go right, go left) |
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| to go through good times and bad, to go through a lot together, to go through thick and thin |
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| jack-of-all-trades, well-rounded person, Renaissance man, one who is good at everything / friend to everyone (chameleon) |
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| fight fire with fire (Lit: Control heat by using heat) |
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| to have different dreams in the same bed, to have different goals/aspirations in doing the same work |
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| to make matters worse / when it rains it pours / to have one thing after another (Lit: Frost on top of snow) |
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| Start a rumor / Spread a groundless rumor |
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| Indecisive / irresolute / can't make choices |
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| childhood friends / bosom buddies |
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| No pain, no gain. / Reaping the rewards of one's efforts / Out of pain, comes pleasure. |
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| It's news to me. / This is something new. / This is the first I've heard of it. |
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| deadly accurate / never fails / always hits the mark / never wrong |
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| to look forward to / to eagerly await / to not be able to wait to do something (To crane one's head in pain) |
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| passionate / sentimental / emotional / loving / caring |
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| with one voice / unanimous / unity |
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| to be a late bloomer / Great things take a long time. |
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| Soon ripe, soon rotten / to get old quickly |
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| born again / start over / change one's wicked ways / out of evil comes good |
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| A soft heart under a tough exterior / A tough-looking person who's soft on the inside |
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| Looks soft on the outside, but tough on the inside |
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| prized posession / to treasure, coddle, cherish, dote on |
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| to be telepathic / to be able to finish one's sentences / to be able to read another's mind (Lit: 2 minds are connected) |
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| My hands are tied. / There's nothing I can do. / I'm flat on my back. |
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| a blessing in disguise / Inscrutable are the ways of heaven / You never know what's going to happen |
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| Putting the cart before the horse / The guest becomes the owner (Things seem wrong, out of order) |
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| Ten to one / Nine times out of ten / Most likely / How much do you wanna bet…? |
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| Mysterious / Enigmatic (Used to describe the pyramids, crop circles, etc.) |
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| to get what one deserves / serves one right / to reap what one has sown |
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| Everything has its pros and cons / positives and negatives / strengths and weaknesses / Take the good with the bad. |
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| Misery loves company. / Those with the same affliction bond easily |
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| the whole story / the whole account / everything |
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