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61pins and needles — noun a sharp tingling sensation from lack of circulation • Hypernyms: ↑prickling, ↑tingle, ↑tingling * * * noun [noncount] : the unpleasant tingling feeling in a part of your body (such as your arm or leg) as it becomes numb or recovers from… …
62rain check — noun 1. a promise that an unaccepted offer will be renewed in the future • Hypernyms: ↑promise 2. a ticket stub entitling the holder to admission to a future event if the scheduled event was cancelled due to rain • Hypernyms: ↑stub, ↑ticket stub… …
63sales resistance — noun resistance by potential customers to aggressive selling practices • Hypernyms: ↑resistance * * * noun 1. : the power, capacity, or disposition to resist buying goods or services offered for sale surveys … to determine the presumptive sales… …
64slow lane — noun the traffic lane for vehicles that are moving slowly • Ant: ↑fast lane • Hypernyms: ↑traffic lane * * * noun, pl ⋯ lanes 1 [count] : a section of a highway for cars that are traveling at slower speeds He s a nervous driver and always stays… …
65spitting image — noun a perfect likeness or counterpart • Hypernyms: ↑likeness, ↑alikeness, ↑similitude * * * noun, pl ⋯ ages [count] : someone who looks very much like someone else usually singular She is the spitting image of her mother. * * * ˌspitting ˈimage… …
66thinking cap — noun a state in which one thinks • Hypernyms: ↑state of mind, ↑frame of mind * * * noun, pl ⋯ caps [count] informal used to refer to the act of trying to solve a problem by thinking carefully about it The students weren t wearing their thinking… …
67time and a half — noun a rate of pay that is 1.5 times the regular rate; for overtime work • Hypernyms: ↑pay rate, ↑rate of pay * * * noun : payment of a worker (as for overtime or holiday work) at one and a half times his regular wage rate * * * a rate of pay for …
68wear and tear — noun decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use • Syn: ↑depreciation • Derivationally related forms: ↑depreciate (for: ↑depreciation) • Hypernyms: ↑financial loss, ↑ …
69fair play — noun : equitable or impartial treatment : justice passage of the fair play amendment abolishing the practice of contested delegates voting in their own and other delegate contests Roscoe Drummond * * * fair play, fair action or treatment, as in a …
70memory lane — noun : an imaginary path through the nostalgically remembered past usually used in such phrases as a walk down memory lane * * * the memory of one s past life likened to a road down which one may travel: The class reunion was a trip down memory… …
