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  • 81stop (dead) in (your) tracks — to suddenly stop moving or doing something. When I heard the loud scream, I stopped dead in my tracks. Usage notes: often used in the forms stop someone (dead) in their tracks or stop something (dead) in its tracks: The memo was supposed to stop… …

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  • 82stop — stȍp [b] (I)[/b] m DEFINICIJA 1. u telegrafiji riječ koja se upotrebljava umjesto točke 2. tehn. tipka za zaustavljanje neke dotadašnje radnje na video i audio uređajima, strojevima ili u računalnim programima SINTAGMA stop nalog ekon. nalog za… …

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  • 83stop short — To come to a sudden standstill • • • Main Entry: ↑short * * * stop suddenly or abruptly * * * ˌstop ˈshort | ˌstop sb ˈshort idiom to suddenly stop, or make sb suddenly stop, doing sth • He stopped short when he heard his name. • …

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  • 84stop-ac|tion — «STOP AK shuhn», adjective, noun. –adj. of or having to do with a method of photography in which a quick action or movement is broken down into a series of still pictures somewhat like stop motion or time lapse photography, but without omitting… …

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  • 85stop and smell the roses — (stop and) smell the roses informal : to stop being busy and enjoy the pleasant things in life You shouldn t work so hard. You need to take some time to stop and smell the roses. • • • Main Entry: ↑rose (stop and) smell the roses see ↑rose, 2 • • …

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  • 86Stop loss — may refer to,* Stop loss order, stock or commodity market order to close a position if/when losses reach a threshold * Stop loss policy, US military requirement for soldiers to remain in service beyond their normal discharge date * Stop Loss… …

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  • 87Stop Me If You've Heard This One — was a comedy radio series, created by the actor humorist Cal Tinney (February 2, 1908 December 2, 1993) and sponsored by Quaker Oats. Hosted by Milton Berle, it aired Saturday evenings at 8:30pm on NBC beginning October 7, 1939.The premise was… …

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  • 88Stop Rokkasho — is a project run by the Japanese NGO Boomerang Net and headed up by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. In order to bring attention to the nuclear reprocessing plant in Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture, they get artists to contribute songs and other art to… …

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  • 89Stop the Week — was a long running BBC Radio 4 discussion programme chaired by Robert Robinson which ran from 1974 1992OriginsThe BBC Radio s Current Affairs Department decided that it wanted a programme that would act as a bookend to Monday morning s Start the… …

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  • 90Stop Smiling (magazine) — Stop Smiling is an arts and culture magazine founded in Chicago in the mid Nineties [1] . Each issue follows a theme and consists of feature length interviews, essays and oral histories. With a focus on preservation [2] , Stop Smiling has… …

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