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keep confusion at bayTo keep confusion at bay means to avoid or prevent confusion.Rate it:

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at bayCornered; unable to flee.Rate it:

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at bayUnable to come closer; at a distance.Rate it:

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keep at bayprevent (someone or something) from approaching or having an effect.Rate it:

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hold offTo delay someone or something temporarily; to keep at bay.Rate it:

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NIBMARAbbreviation of no independence before majority rule : a policy adopted by the United Kingdom requiring the implementation of majority rule in a colony, rather than rule by the white colonial minority, before the colony could be granted independence.Rate it:

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body of waterAny significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, lake or a bay.Rate it:

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queen beeA reproductive female (especially the only one) in a colony of bees.Rate it:

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coloniam constituere (Leg. Agr. 1. 5. 16)to found a colony.Rate it:

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coloniam deducere in aliquem locum (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...)to found a colony somewhere.Rate it:

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être aux aboisTo be reduced to the last extremity; To be at bay.Rate it:

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life's a bitchAn expression of acceptance of misfortune.1950, Joy Davidman, Weeping Bay, page 184:She'd have been willing enough to use them, poor dead little bitch. Life's a bitch. Life's a bad joke.Rate it:

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Portuguese man-of-warA floating colony of hydrozoans (Physalia physalis) attached to a float; it superficially resembles a jellyfish.Rate it:

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urbs in sinu sita estthe city is situate on a bay.Rate it:

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