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111the grave — death Standard English figurative use: There will be sleeping enough in the grave. (Franklin, 1757) In obsolete Scottish use, the gravestone gentry were the dead: My bed is owre amang yon gravestane gentry. (A. Murdoch, 1873) …
112written out of the script — dismissed from employment Literally, in theatrical use, in a serial play, soap opera, etc. and metaphorically for others: ... he had played a psychiatrist in a soap opera for seven years until he was written out of the script. (Sanders …
113bluff — bluff1 noun an attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something. verb try to deceive someone as to one s abilities or intentions. Phrases call someone s bluff 1》 challenge someone to carry out a stated intention, in the …
114body — noun 1) the human body Syn: figure, frame, form, physique, anatomy, skeleton; soma; informal bod 2) he was hit by shrapnel in the head and body Syn: torso, trunk 3) the body was exhum …
115appear — 1 Appear, loom, emerge mean to come out into view. In use, however, they are only rarely interchangeable. Appear is weakest in its implication of a definite physical background or a source; consequently it sometimes means merely to become visible …
116door — door, gate, portal, postern, doorway, gateway are comparable chiefly as meaning an entrance to a place. Door applies chiefly to the movable and usually swinging barrier which is set in the opening which serves as an entrance to a building or to a …
117multitude — multitude, army, host, legion mean, both in the singular and plural, a very large number of persons or things. They do not (as do the words compared at CROWD) necessarily imply assemblage, but all of them can be used with that implication.… …
118level — /ˈlɛvəl / (say levuhl) adjective 1. having no part higher than another; having an even surface. 2. being in a plane parallel to the plane of the horizon; horizontal. 3. on an equality, as one thing with another, or two or more things with one… …
119pink — I. /pɪŋk / (say pingk) noun 1. a light tint of crimson; pale reddish purple. 2. any plant of the genus Dianthus, as D. plumarius (the common garden pink), D. sinensis (China pink), or D. caryophyllus (clove pink or carnation). 3. the flower of… …
120black — black, blacken verbs. Black is used when the meaning is to deliberately make something black, as in blacking one s face, one s shoes, a person s eye, etc., in the meaning to declare something ‘black’ (i.e. to boycott it), and in the phrasal verb… …
