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foreign ministerPolitical or official representative person of one country in another country.Rate it:

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forget, when up to one's neck in alligators, that the mission is to drain the swampTo lose sight of one's initial objective, becoming caught up in subtasks or in tasks only tangentially/orthogonally related to the initial objective.Rate it:

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mission creepGradual expansion of the objectives, scope, and/or cost of a military mission without careful planning.Rate it:

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your mission, should you choose to accept itYour mission or task; what you must do.Rate it:

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how do you say...in EnglishCommon phrase used to ask how to express an idea or translate a word, often in a foreign language.Rate it:

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Yankee go homeUnited States people go back to your country; used to express anger or opposition at American presence in a foreign land.Rate it:

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dummy outFrom a video game in the process of localizing that game from a foreign country.Rate it:

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ghost homeA residence intentionally kept vacant by an absentee owner, especially a foreign investor, as a financially safe asset to be liquidated at a convenient time.Rate it:

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the jetset wayThe JetSet Way is the only way. People who live this way are straight alpha/sigma males and have the ability at will to ethically attain any and every woman they shall desire, own any car they shall want, wear whatever brand clothes they want, get VIP access everywhere and will spend more time on planes traveling to foreign countries than they do at their home. The Jet Set Way was coined by JetSetFly (also known as Josh King Madrid) himself.Rate it:

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böhmische Dörferdouble Dutch, all Greek, like a foreign languageRate it:

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false friendA word in a foreign language bearing a deceptive resemblance to a word in one's own language.Rate it:

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fidei donumPrêtres envoyés en mission mais restant attachés à leur diocèse d’origine.Rate it:

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fresh off the boatNewly arrived from a foreign place, especially as an immigrant who is still unfamiliar with the customs and language of his or her new environment.Rate it:

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

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gunboat diplomacyThe pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of military power.Rate it:

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jump the fenceTo change from first approach, approach from a different direction, suggest a completely foreign idea.Rate it:

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lost errandA mission likely to fail.Rate it:

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Monopoly moneyBills of foreign currency which are brightly colored or printed on flimsy paper.Rate it:

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not in a pig's eyeA chiding expression, relative to an odd-ball idea or suggestion. Deemed irrelevant, awkward, foreign, inappropriate.Rate it:

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peregrinatioa foreign journey.Rate it:

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un capitaine au long coursA captain of a trading vessel going to foreign ports.Rate it:

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