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  • 81case harden — verb Etymology: case (II) (covering) + harden transitive verb 1. : to harden (a ferrous alloy) so that the surface layer is made considerably harder than the interior (as by carburizing and quenching, cyaniding, carbonitriding, or nitriding) …

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  • 82Make Mine Music — La Boîte à musique La Boîte à musique Titre original Make Mine Music Réalisation Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Joshua Meador, Robert Cormack Scénario Voir fiche technique Musique Ken Darby, Oliver Wallace, Edward H. Plumb …

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  • 83make hay while the sun shines — 1546 J. HEYWOOD Dialogue of Proverbs I. iii. A4 Whan the sunne shynth make hey. 1583 B. MELBANCKE Philotimus 24 Yt is well therefore to make hay while the sunne shines. 1835 J. CARLYLE Letters & Memorials (1883) 1.21 ‘It is good to make hay while …

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  • 84Case of Prohibitions — The Case of Prohibitions (1607) [Owen Hood Phillips. Leading Cases in Constitutional Law . Sweet Maxwell, London, 1957. Ch. 13, pp 46 47.] is a historical English court decision that established the supremacy of the courts. King James I placed… …

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  • 85Case hierarchy — In linguistic typology, the case hierarchy states grammatical cases in order of their prominence. It should therefore be concluded that a language which makes use of any given case will also make use of all the cases which are higher (further… …

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  • 86make a federal case out of — See: MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT, MAKE A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLEHILL …

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  • 87make a federal case out of — See: MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT, MAKE A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLEHILL …

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  • 88make — verb Make is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑batsman, ↑company, ↑factory, ↑firm, ↑picture, ↑recipe, ↑sale Make is used with these nouns as the object: ↑accommodation, ↑accompaniment, ↑accusation, ↑ …

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  • 89make\ a\ federal\ case\ out\ of — See: make a big deal about, make a mountain out of a molehill …

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  • 90make a big to-do — complain too much, make a federal case...    If the waiter makes a mistake, don t make a big to do about it …

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