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lose the plotTo cease to be behaving in a predictable and/or rational manner.Rate it:

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lose the plotTo have one's results decline severely in quality or suddenly fall below an acceptable standard, especially when compared to past excellence.Rate it:

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the plot thickensUsed, often ironically, to describe an increasingly complex or mysterious situation.Rate it:

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see how the land liesTo wait for all the information about something before taking action.Rate it:

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land a windfallTo win a valuable prize, become an heir to a cash legacy, experience a valuable one of a kind item dropped in your lap.Rate it:

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never fight a land war in AsiaDon't bite off more than you can chew; don't start a fight that is too big to win.Rate it:

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fat of the landThe greatest part of anything; the finest and most abundant share of resources; the cream of the crop.Rate it:

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flogging the landDamaging agricultural land through excessive grazing or clearing.Rate it:

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land of plentyA utopia that provides for all one's needsRate it:

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in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kingAmong others with a disadvantage or disability, the one with the mildest disadvantage or disability is regarded as the greatest.Even someone without much talent or ability is considered special by those with no talent or ability at all.Rate it:

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land of opportunityA nickname for the United States.Rate it:

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land on one's feetTo be lucky, or successful, often in difficult situations.Rate it:

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land poorIn a condition of poverty as a result of inability to meet tax payments or other financial requirements for one's land holdings.Rate it:

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land upTo end up; to arrive or result, especially if it is not planned.Rate it:

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lay of the landThe trends, feelings, intentions, and other factors influencing a strategic, political, or social situation.Rate it:

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lay of the landThe physical characteristics of the terrain or surrounding natural environment.Rate it:

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Promised LandAny place to which one eagerly seeks to go and which one expects to greatly improve one's situation.Rate it:

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Promised LandAmerica.Rate it:

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Promised LandHeaven or the afterlife.Rate it:

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Promised LandThe area historically known as Judea, which was promised to the Israelites by God according to oral tradition recorded in the Book of Genesis.Rate it:

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diegesisA narrative or plot. Typically, a movie.Rate it:

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on a cloudy day i saw a rainbow, on the day i saw you , you gave a stormOn better days there's a plot of getting ahead than on a bad day.Rate it:

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the thick plottensThe plot thickens.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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put downTo land an aircraft.Rate it:

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touch downTo land an aircraft.Rate it:

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fall offA hip hop term; to completely lose the plot in terms of artistic direction.Rate it:

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virgin territoryLand that has never been explored or developed.Rate it:

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yellow brick roadA proverbial path to a Promised Land of one's hopes and dreams.Rate it:

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eat shitTo fall and land on one's face.Rate it:

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c'est un pays de cocagneIt is a land flowing with milk and honey.Rate it:

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ager publicuspublic land; state domain.Rate it:

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agros assignare (Leg. Agr. 1. 6. 17)to allot land.Rate it:

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anaconda mortgageA loan arrangement in which all of the money borrowed from a lender, for whatever purpose, is secured by one's home, land, and other property.Rate it:

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appellere navem (ad terram, litus)to land (of people).Rate it:

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appelli (ad oram) (Att. 13. 21)to land (of ships).Rate it:

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argumentumthe plot of the piece.Rate it:

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as the crow fliesIn a straight line distance between two locations, as opposed to the road distance or over land distance.Rate it:

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cast aboutTo plan; plot; contrive.Rate it:

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chew upto ruin (especially land), by diggingRate it:

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chip shotAn approach shot made from a location a short distance from the golf green in which the ball is launched into the air with only low or moderate force, so that it will land on the green and roll toward the hole.Rate it:

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domestica (externa) nosseto be acquainted with the history of one's own land.Rate it:

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e patria exire iubere aliquemto banish a man from his native land.Rate it:

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escensionem facere (of troops)to land, disembark.Rate it:

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exire ex, de navito land, disembark.Rate it:

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exire, egredi in terramto land, disembark.Rate it:

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fundiproperty in land; real property.Rate it:

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hoist by one's own petardTo be hurt, or destroyed by one's own plot or device, of one's own doing which one intended for another; to be "blown up by one's own bomb".Rate it:

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holding patternA path taken by an aircraft waiting to land.Rate it:

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in feeOf an estate in land, inherited or owned by one who has the absolute right to dispose of the land as they desire, including the right to select an inheritor of the land.Rate it:

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