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  • 1put the wood into the hole — Vrb phrs. Shut the door. A Northern phrase that dialectically is expressed as put wood in thole . The expression is sometimes completed with either ...or were you born in a field? and occasionally ...or were you born in a barn? …

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  • 2put the wood in the hole — Meaning Close the door. Origin Colloquial English expression …

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  • 3The Three Little Men in the Wood — or The Three Dwarfs is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, number 13. [Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, Grimm s Fairy Tales , [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/13threemenforest.html The Three Little Men in the Wood ] ]… …

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  • 4put the dead wood on — (slang) To gain a great advantage over • • • Main Entry: ↑dead …

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  • 5wood in (the hole), put the —  Close the door, wooden spoon, get the Fail badly or come last in competition …

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  • 6To put the screw on — Screw Screw (skr[udd]), n. [OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe, female screw, F. [ e]crou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a screw, G. schraube, Icel. skr[=u]fa.] 1. A cylinder, or a cylindrical… …

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  • 7To put the screws on — Screw Screw (skr[udd]), n. [OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe, female screw, F. [ e]crou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a screw, G. schraube, Icel. skr[=u]fa.] 1. A cylinder, or a cylindrical… …

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  • 8Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser — was a popular British patriotic song of the First World War. It was written in 1915 by Mark Sheridan and references the 1914 campaign in Belgium when the small British Expeditionary Force managed to delay the much larger German army, slowing them …

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  • 9put — [c]/pʊt / (say poot) verb (put, putting) –verb (t) 1. to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of some place or position: to put money in one s purse. 2. to bring into some relation, state, etc.: put everything in order. 3. to… …

  • 10The Magical Monarch of Mo — (1898) is the first full length children s fantasy book by L. Frank Baum. Originally published in 1899 as A New Wonderland , the book was reissued in 1903 with a new title in order to capitalize upon the alliterative title of Baum s successful… …

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