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chase one's tailTo busily try to perform many tasks or to repeatedly revise one's plans, especially with inefficient use of one's time and limited results.Rate it:

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high-tail itTo hurry or run; often, to flee.Rate it:

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In Two Shakes of a Lamb's TailToo fast, immediately and at once without any delayRate it:

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make head or tail ofTo determine to be good or bad.Rate it:

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tickle the dragon's tailTo annoy an irritable person.Rate it:

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tail inTo fasten by one of the ends into a wall or some other support.Rate it:

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tail between one's legsA reaction to a confrontation, specifically one with excessive shame and hurt pride.Rate it:

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a pig might have a long tale but its tail is always short!A hypocrite always keeps giving excuses & making stories, but his/her supporter & power base are always short! So, if anyone earnestly try to get rid of that hypocrite's tyranny and torcher, that is very much feasible as history supports that hypocrites never win!Rate it:

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biting the cat's tailmaking a risky decisionRate it:

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chase tailPartner.Rate it:

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have a tiger by the tailTo be in a difficult or dangerous situation in which one ideally should not remain, but from which one cannot withdraw.Rate it:

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have the tiger by the tailTo be in a difficult or dangerous situation in which one ideally should not remain, but from which one cannot withdraw.Rate it:

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have the world by the tailTo possess great influence and opportunity.Rate it:

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long tailUsed other than as an idiom: The tail of a distribution that represents the rare occurrence of extreme values..Rate it:

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long tailSales made for less usual goods within a very large choice, which can return a profit through reduced marketing and distribution costs.Rate it:

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make head or tail ofTo understand even minimally.Rate it:

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piece of tailAlternative form of piece of ass.Rate it:

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tail awayTo gradually subside or diminish; to tail off.Rate it:

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tail offTo gradually subside or diminish; to tail away.Rate it:

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tail wagging the dogA minor or secondary part of something controlling the whole.Rate it:

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take a tiger by the tailLatch-on, accost, challenge, confront someone or something which is dangerous, threatening, vicious, harmful, explosive, oppressive, vindictive.Rate it:

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tickle the dragon's tailTo bring two subcritical masses close together in order to find the edge of criticality.Rate it:

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tickle the dragon's tailTo do something that has a risk of going catastrophically wrong.Rate it:

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turn tailTo flee; to run away; to leave.Rate it:

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whale tailUsed other than as an idiom: The tail of a whale.Rate it:

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whale tailAn unintentional display of a thong etc above the waistband of trousers etc.Rate it:

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whale tailAn automotive spoilerRate it:

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work one's tail offWork excessively or to the point of exhaustion.Rate it:

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fishtailThe tail of a fish, or an object resembling this.Rate it:

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flower power60s youth movementRate it:

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in the flower of one's youthwhen one was young and happyRate it:

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you are awesome that's why i blossomץYou are an amazing person because of which my life blooms. Means your awesomeness make me feel like I am a blossoming flower.Rate it:

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mettre du sel sous la queue d'un oiseauTo put salt on a bird’s tail.Rate it:

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cheese downTo coil the tail of a rope on deck so as to present a neat appearance.Rate it:

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bed outTo transfer a young plant from an inside location such as a greenhouse to an outdoors flower bed.Rate it:

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flower of the flockSomething exceedingly good or the best of its type.Rate it:

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paper flowerA plant, Psilostrophe cooperi, and its flower.Rate it:

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flowerTypically including sepals, petals, stamens, and ovaries; often conspicuously colourful.Rate it:

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à la queue gît le veninThe sting is in the tail.Rate it:

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faire tapisserie (fam.)To be a wall-flower at a ball.Rate it:

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flowerA plant that bears flowers.Rate it:

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flowerOf plants, a state of bearing blooms.Rate it:

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flowerThe best examples or representatives of a group.Rate it:

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flowerThe best state of things; the prime.Rate it:

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flowerAn inflorescence that resembles a flower, but actually contains many small florets, such as a sunflower.Rate it:

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flowerThe vulva, especially the labia majora.Rate it:

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flower not but flowers petal.Get a good small bit of big thing, matter, incidence.Rate it:

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il se retira l'oreille basseHe went away crestfallen.\nHe went away with his tail between his legs.Rate it:

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j'y perds mon latinI cannot make it out; I am nonplussed; I can make neither head nor tail of it.Rate it:

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je lui frotterai les oreillesI will twist his tail for him.Rate it:

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