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boys will be boysIt is hard, often fruitless, to attempt to curb the natural playfulness and tendency to mischief of most growing boys.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13But just then there was a slight altercation between Master Tommy and Master Jacky. Boys will be boys and our two twins were no exception to this golden rule.Even grown men usually remain somewhat boyish in heart"Boys will be boys", grinned grandpa while he joined his adult son playing with the fancy train-set he gave his grandson for Christmas while the kid was in school.Rate it:

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a man hasn’t lost when he’s fallen down, he’s lost when he’s too weak to get back upit explains that giving up is losingRate it:

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big boysPlural form of big boy.Rate it:

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big boysThe people or bodies with the most influence and/or power.Rate it:

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boys and girlsUsed to address an audience of children.Rate it:

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boys and their toysUsed to evoke the idea that adult men sometimes dote excessively on machines, automobiles, and gadgets in a childish manner.Rate it:

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they ranged from fuzz-cheeked boys to gray-haired, balding gansers...from "A Crown of Swords," book 7 in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series of novels (Tor books 1996). This quote is found on page 64.Rate it:

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I lost my bagIndicates that the speaker has lost his or her backpack.Rate it:

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one who hesitates is lostA person who spends too much time contemplating what to do may miss a valuable but fleeting opportunity.Rate it:

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better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at allHaving experience of love, even if it ended, is better than having no experience of love.Love is worthwhile despite the pain involved in separation.Rate it:

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get lostTo be absent, to seem to be absent.Rate it:

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get lostTo lose one's way.Rate it:

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get lostUsed to tell somebody to go away or leave one alone.Rate it:

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he who hesitates is lostone who is not quick to act gets left behind.Rate it:

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I lost my backpackIndicates that the speaker has lost his or her backpack.Rate it:

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I lost my bagIndicates that the speaker has lost his or her handbag.Rate it:

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I lost my glassesIndicates that the speaker has lost his or her glasses.Rate it:

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I lost my handbagIndicates that the speaker has lost his or her handbag.Rate it:

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I lost my keysIndicates that the speaker has lost his or her keys.Rate it:

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I lost my walletIndicates that the speaker has lost his or her wallet.Rate it:

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I'm lostIndicates that the speaker is unable to find his or her way.Rate it:

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I've lost my keysIndicates that the speaker has lost his or her keys.Rate it:

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look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpenceTo look annoyed or displeased.Rate it:

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lost causeA cause, attempt, or effort that is hopeless or futile.Rate it:

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lost errandA mission likely to fail.Rate it:

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lost footageA lack of information, a lack of memory relative to vital details in a particular event.Rate it:

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lost herto lose a femaleRate it:

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lost in the shuffle!'Lost in the shuffle' 0ccurs when the conversation, the discussion becomes so 'hot 'N heavy', so disjointed, so agitated that the original theme is 'lost in the SHUFFLE' !Rate it:

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lost in translationUnable to understand due to having been poorly translated.Rate it:

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lost soulOne who is forlorn, who lacks direction, purpose, or motivation in life.Rate it:

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lost soulA soul that is destined to go to hell; a person possessing such a soul.Rate it:

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lost twinStill birth of one of two twins leaving only 1 living twinRate it:

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no love lostDislike, animosity.Rate it:

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you lost meYou left me out in left field, You did not explain clearly. Your explanation was to me enigmatic, and requires another meeting of the minds.Rate it:

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c'est un homme flambéHe is a ruined man, a lost man.Rate it:

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left me out thereConfused, lost; not understanding the situation.Rate it:

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sinking shipSomething which is doomed; a lost cause; an impending debacle; an ongoing disaster.Rate it:

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stay wokeFirst used by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter in a 1938 interview afterword of his song Scottsboro Boys-named for nine Black teenagers and young men falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. Lead Belly knew the Scottsboro boys, and urged Black listeners and Black persons traveling through that area in Alabama to "Stay Woke" (be vigilant, cautious, and alert) in the spoken afterword to the song. Lead Belly's direct relative, Global Activist and Equality Advocate Greshun De Bouse began the #STAYWOKELEADBELLY movement to acknowledge the phrase's origin, and redefine its present-day meaning as a more generalized, all-inclusive phrase admonishing all to be cognizant of past, present, and future world occurrences.Rate it:

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Diamond in the RoughSomeone or something that has lost charm now, but has immense value and the prospective to be stunningRate it:

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fuck offGo away! Get lost!Rate it:

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the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get(vulgar) The sexual satisfactions that one receives from a spouse or romantic partner are not sufficient to compensate for the significant periods of bad faith and unpleasant treatment which such relationships routinely involve.1971, Allen Churchill, The Literary Decade, ISBN 9780135375228:Years later she expressed her disillusionment with sex by saying, "The fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."1999, Ben Sonnenberg, Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy, ISBN 9781582430454, p. 93:Maitland got drunk at his parties and threw his arm around you and pulled you over to his wife and made you look down her dress, saying, "The trouble with marriage is that the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."2008, Joseph Heywood, Blue Wolf In Green Fire, ISBN 9781599213590, p. 63:"I can't believe a little pussy got me into dis mess." "Shit happens," Service said. "Sometimes the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."Rate it:

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when one door closes, another opensWhen one opportunity is lost, another opportunity soon becomes available.Rate it:

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je ne sais plus où j'en suis1. I have lost the place where I left off (in reading, etc.). 2. I do not know what I am about.Rate it:

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pissing contestA boys' prankish competition to determine who can urinate the furthest up a wall.Rate it:

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actum est de meit's all over with me; I'm a lost man.Rate it:

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allez voir là-bas si j'y suisget lost!Rate it:

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artes, quibus aetas puerilis ad humanitatem informari soletthe usual subjects taught to boys.Rate it:

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at seaConfused, lost, or adrift; bewildered.Rate it:

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bald as a billiard ballOne whom has lost much hair and prematurely bald.Rate it:

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bien perdu bien connuThat which is well lost is well known, or what once was lost is prized.Rate it:

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