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in this day and ageIn the current time period of years.Rate it:

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kill the goose that lays the golden eggsTo seek short term gain at the sacrifice of long term profit.Rate it:

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Kill the Goose that Lays the Golden EggsTo spoil something good with one’s absurd actions, intolerance and greedRate it:

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kitchen table softwareEspecially in the early years of personal computers, a set of computer programs developed by an entrepreneurial advanced amateur or self-employed professional computer programmer in his or her own home; software developed by a small business using the services of such programmers.Rate it:

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le juste milieuThe golden mean.Rate it:

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long ago and far awayIn the distant past, years and years ago.Rate it:

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longius aetate provectum esseto be more advanced in years.Rate it:

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maximam ab omnibus laudem adipiscito win golden opinions from every one.Rate it:

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mediocritatem tenere (Off. 1. 25. 89)to observe the golden mean.Rate it:

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nemesis theoryTheory of animal extinction, suggesting that a sister star to the sun caused extinction of groups of animals such as dinosaurs. The theory holds that the movement of this as yet undiscovered star disrupts the Oort cloud of comets every 26 million years, resulting in the Earth suffering an increased bombardment from comets at these times.Rate it:

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never in a million yearsAbsolutely not.Rate it:

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not in a million yearsAlternative form of never in a million years.Rate it:

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omnium undique laudem colligereto win golden opinions from every one.Rate it:

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on in yearsOld; advanced in age.Rate it:

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por la boca muere el pezwhat you say can do you harm; silence is golden; keep mumRate it:

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puer decem annoruma boy ten years old.Rate it:

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quinque anni sunt or sextus annus est, cum te non vidiI have not seen you for five years.Rate it:

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quinque annos or sextum (iam) annum abesthe has been absent five years.Rate it:

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roll back the yearsTo produce a sense of nostalgiaRate it:

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royal bumpsA ritual of two or more persons holding another person by the arms and legs, face up, while bumping them repeatedly on the floor. In modern times it is a lighthearted affair, generally performed only on a young person's birthday with the number of bumps corresponding to the person's age in years. Historically it was a hazing.Rate it:

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salad yearsThe inexperienced, youthful prime of an individual, group, organization or entity.Rate it:

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silence is goldenPeace and quiet have immense value.Often the best choice is to say nothing.Rate it:

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that's a milestone50 years married is a milesone in one's lifeRate 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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there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnaceEven if a person is in his or her senior years, with gray hair, he or she can still have ambition and energy, especially sexual energy.Rate it:

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throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stickTry the same thing (or similar things) often enough, and, even if the general standard is poor, sometimes one will be successful.2001, And still no one is shouting stop. read in The Kingdom archives at on 02 Nov 06,Many team managers are of the philosophy that if you throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick. They believe that team preparation is all about physical fitness. They run the players into the ground and they believe they will be "flying on the day".2001, Robert McCrum, Let them eat cake, in The Observer 16 Dec 01, read on Guardian Unlimited site at on 02 Nov 06,Australian publishing boomed and in the past 10 years the country's literary culture has undergone a mini golden age, capped by Carey's triumph at the 2001 Booker Prize. As one Australian arts administrator said to me many years ago: 'Listen, mate, if you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick.'2001, Chris Collin, Re: 2-cp speys on The Strathspey Server mailing list archive at on 02 Nov 06,I am finding that "if you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick". It doesn't always work of course (especially on the nights when the class is mostly the beginners), but the class seems to thrive on the challange.2005, Ray Craft (poster on The right scale blog), Fitzhooie and his Burden, read at on 02 Nov 06,Prosecutors everywhere have bad habits of overcharging lots of cases, knowing that if the throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick.2005, Sean Kelleher, Spike Milligan: His part in our downfall in Business 07 Aug 05, read at on 02 Nov 06,As long as there is negligible regulation and enforcement anyone can actually try and do the job...Weak regulation allows the industry to build strategies on full time recruitment. The theory goes: throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick.c2005, Everything You've Learned About Marketing Is Wrong, read on LINC Performance website at on 02 Nov 06,They have the money to continue to believe in the repetition side of the equation. You throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick. But it still isnRate it:

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tizku leshanim rabot ne'imot vetovotMay you merit many pleasant and good years (in Hebrew)Rate it:

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tredecim annos natus sumI am thirteen years old.Rate it:

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trop gratter cuit, trop parler nuitLeast said, soonest mended; Speech is silvern, silence is golden.Rate it:

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tum habebam decem annosI was ten years old at the time.Rate it:

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turn twoTo reach the age of two years.Rate it:

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twilight yearsOld age.Rate it:

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velvet handcuffsGolden handcuffs: any arrangement designed to provide favorable benefits or pay so as to discourage a participant from wanting to leave it.Rate it:

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vetus usus inter nos interceditwe have known each other well for several years.Rate it:

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viginti anni et amplius, aut plustwenty years and more.Rate it:

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when pigs flyA way of informing that it will never happen -- never in a million years.Rate it:

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y/oAbbreviation of years old.Rate it:

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YOAbbreviation of years old.Rate it:

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многая летаwish for longevity, many yearsRate it:

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ואהבת לרעך כמוךlove your neighbor as yourself, love thy neighbor as thyself; The Golden Rule: the principle that one should treat other people in the manner in which one would want to be treated by them.Rate it:

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