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unknown quantityA person or thing whose nature or value is a mystery.Rate it:

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strike out into unknown territoryVenture forth into a new or unknown business, theme, vacation, personal relationship or program.Rate it:

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buck feverExcitement and nervousness felt by a new hunter upon seeing game.Rate it:

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cabin feverBoredomRate it:

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English feverPreoccupation or obsession with learning or promoting the learning of the English language.Rate it:

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feed a cold, starve a feverEating more will cure the common cold, and eating less will cure a fever.1887, J. H. Whelan, "The Treatment of Colds.", The Practitioner, vol. 38, pg. 180:"Feed a cold, starve a fever." There is a deal of wisdom in the first part of this advice. A person with a catarrh should take an abundance of light nutritious food, and some light wine, but avoid spirits, and above all tobacco.1968, Katinka Loeser, The Archers at Home, publ. Atheneum, New York, pg. 60:I have a cold. 'Feed a cold, starve a fever.' You certainly know that.2009, Shelly Reuben, Tabula Rasa, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 015101079X, pg. 60:They say feed a cold, starve a fever, but they don't tell you what to do when you got both, so I figured scrambled eggs, tea, and toast.Rate it:

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fever pitchExtreme excitementRate it:

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I have a feverIndicates that the speaker has an abnormally high body temperature, which is usually a symptom of a disease.Rate it:

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spring feverA feeling of laziness or listlessness associated with the arrival of the warm, comfortable weather of the spring season.Rate it:

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spring feverA feeling of invigoration and restlessness associated with the arrival of the warm weather and renewal of nature in the spring season.Rate it:

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Afraid of Your Own ShadowTo get easily frightened of even minor things or anything unknownRate it:

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come full circleTo complete a cycle of transition, returning to the point of origin.Rate it:

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for xyz reasonsFor reasons unknown and not worth speculating on.Rate it:

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incunabula doctrinaethe origin, first beginnings of learning.Rate it:

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joe schmoeAn average person, especially a male, usually of blue-collar working class; no one in particular; someone unknown to you.Rate it:

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somewhere over the rainbowat an unknown, hypothetical, or very distant placeRate it:

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stay wokeFirst used by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter in a 1938 interview afterword of his song Scottsboro Boys-named for nine Black teenagers and young men falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. Lead Belly knew the Scottsboro boys, and urged Black listeners and Black persons traveling through that area in Alabama to "Stay Woke" (be vigilant, cautious, and alert) in the spoken afterword to the song. Lead Belly's direct relative, Global Activist and Equality Advocate Greshun De Bouse began the #STAYWOKELEADBELLY movement to acknowledge the phrase's origin, and redefine its present-day meaning as a more generalized, all-inclusive phrase admonishing all to be cognizant of past, present, and future world occurrences.Rate it:

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Dark-Horse CandidateAn unknown candidate who wins unpredictablyRate it:

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take a leap of faithjump into the fray, gather all one's wits and plunge, take courage and step into the unknown:Rate it:

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kiss your money goodbyeThe giving, lending of one's funds to individuals or investing or buying-into an irresistible scheme, agenda, lottery program or unknown proposition.Rate it:

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your mother is a whoreYou are a person of poor character, based on your imputed descent from a mother of poor character, and an unknown father of poor character.Rate it:

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Tom, Dick or HarryAnybody or everybody; random or unknown people.Rate it:

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a risk takerAny new venture replete with myriad unknown consequences can become costly in many areas.Rate it:

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X factorAn unknown or hard-to-define influence; a factor with unknown or unforeseeable consequences.Rate it:

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aestu et febri iactarito have a severe attack of fever.Rate it:

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better the devil you know than the devil you don't knowSomething bad and familiar is better than something bad and unknown.Rate it:

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big breakA breakthrough, especially the first big hit of a previously unknown performer or performers in the entertainment industry.Rate it:

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boomshankaA wish of happiness. Purportedly a literal translation (from an unknown language) is, "May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman"Rate it:

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bring to lightTo expose or disclose something that was hidden or unknown.Rate it:

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caught on the hopTo be in a situation of change, especially from a known to an unknown stateRate it:

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DNAThat part of a person's character that has a genetic origin.Rate it:

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don't be chicken!An exhortation to another; Don't be cowardly, afraid to venture forth, gutless, afraid of the strange or unknown!Rate it:

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e lá vai fumaçaUsed to fill in an unknown number or year.Rate it:

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fons et caput (vid. sect. III., note caput...)source, origin.Rate it:

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funny moneyBills of any foreign currency or of counterfeit origin.Rate it:

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give or takeApproximately; plus or minus some unknown amount.Rate it:

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give rise toTo be the origin of; to produce; to result in.Rate it:

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God knowsIt is only known to God; i.e., it is unknown to mortals, no one knows, I don't knowRate it:

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God only knowsAlternative form of God knows, in sense of something unknown to mortal men.Rate it:

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Greek to MeSomething that is unknown and difficult to understand, complex and hard to grabRate it:

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haec ex eodem fonte fluunt, manantthese things have the same origin.Rate it:

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hard and fastAn expression of maritime origin. The vessel lodged hard and fast. Hard-grounded upon the hidden reef! An individual expressing an extreme tightly held position relative the topic at hand.Rate it:

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hearken backTo go back to something as an origin or source.Rate it:

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heaven only knowsAlternative form of God knows, in sense of something unknown to mortal men.Rate it:

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how long is a piece of stringUsed as a response to a question such as "How long will it take?" or "How big is it?" when the length or size is unknown, infinite, or variable.Rate it:

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humili, obscuro loco natusof humble, obscure origin.Rate it:

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humilibus (obscuris) parentibus natusof humble, obscure origin.Rate it:

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I have a temperatureSynonym of I have a feverRate it:

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j'ai une fièvre de chevalI am in a high fever.Rate it:

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John DoeAny unknown or anonymous male person.Rate it:

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