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baptism by fireA change in initial attitude or ideals through a traumatic situation.Rate it:

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beating around the bushAvoiding factual responses, offering evasive statements, presenting dubious evidence.Rate it:

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flying startThe start of a sports event in which the competitors are moving when they pass the starting line or initial jump point.Rate it:

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if you pay peanuts, you get monkeysOffering a low salary will not attract skilled employees.Rate it:

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a side glance!Offering/Receiving, observing a straight forward focus of attention, without any variation of head or eye movement.Rate it:

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drain the swamp when up to one's neck in alligators(idiomatic) When performing a long and complex task, and when you've gotten utterly immersed in secondary and tertiary unexpected tangential subtasks, it's easy to lose sight of the initial objective. This sort of distraction can be particularly problematic if the all-consuming subtask or sub-subtask is not, after all, particularly vital to the original, primary goal, but ends up sucking up time and resources (out of all proportion to its actual importance) only because it seems so urgent.Rate it:

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lay openIn Japan and South Korea, to publish a patent for initial public review, prior to the formal application for registration.Rate it:

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put downTo pay an initial amount of money on a large purchase.Rate it:

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all students take calculusA mnemonic for the sign values of all the trigonometric functions in the two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system. The initial letters ASTC — for all, sine, tangent, cosine — signify which of the functions are positive, in the order of the quadrants, starting at the top right and moving counterclockwise.Rate it:

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backseat driverBy extension, anybody offering unsolicited or unwelcome advice.Rate it:

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bring down the houseSpawn overwhelming agreement, acceptance, appreciation, applause as a result of a speech, magic act, athletic, dramatic, vocal, jocular or mime offering.Rate it:

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bring owls to athensForgive me, then, for bringing owls to Athens as a thanks-offering. — Goethe, in a letter to Wilhelm von Humboldt.Rate it:

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call backRequest for a second interview or audition, following a successful initial interview.Rate it:

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come intoTo enter the initial phase of; to commence.Rate it:

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compliments of the houseSaid when offering something on the house, for free.Rate it:

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curtain-raiserIn a theater, an initial play, musical performance, etc which precedes the main performance.Rate it:

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fencepost problemIn computer programming, a problem dealing with how to treat the initial or boundary values of a discrete problem.Rate it:

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for pete's sake!The verbal expression to an untoward remark, gesture, action, grimace, gesture, glance: Response to a surprise, a stance, pose, offering, withdrawal, thrust, one's apparel, rejection,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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frame upTo erect the initial walls and roof of.Rate it:

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get through toTo succeed in communicating with (after initial difficulty).Rate it:

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head startinitial advantageRate it:

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hit it offTo develop an amicable relationship (with), especially in a sudden manner during an initial encounter.Rate it:

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hit it upTo develop an amicable relationship (with), especially in a sudden manner during an initial encounter.Rate it:

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I see, said the blind manSaid to express confusion. Also used to express understanding after an initial period of confusion, i.e., "I see, said the blind man."Rate it:

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mine arse on a bandboxAn answer to the offer of any thing inadequate to the purpose for which it is proffered, like offering a bandbox for a seat.Rate it:

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music to one's earSome unexpected good news; a favorable outcome after some initial confusion or delay.Rate it:

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olive branchpeace offeringRate it:

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one-horse townA very small town, especially one of a rural nature and/or offering very few or no attractions.Rate it:

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please sit downOffering a seat to somebody.Rate it:

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praemium exponere or proponere(to encourage) by offering a reward.Rate it:

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roll overTo increment, especially back to an initial value.Rate it:

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shoulder to cry onSomeone offering emotional support to another in distress.Rate it:

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smallpox blanketAn apparently benevolent offering whose real intent is to disrupt, destabilize or weaken.Rate it:

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telephone tagA situation in which a person unsuccessfully attempts to contact another person by telephone and leaves a message instead, and in which the second person then unsuccessfully attempts to return the initial call and leaves a message for the first person, and so on as if the two are playing a game of tag in which the most recent person to have been left with a message is now designated as "it" (i.e. as the player now obliged to chase the other and to attempt anew to make contact).Rate it:

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