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  • 31Set It Off (Peaches song) — Infobox Single Name = Set It Off Artist = Peaches from Album = The Teaches of Peaches Released = 2000 Genre = Electronica Label = Kitty Yo Writer = Peaches Producer = Peaches Chart position = * #36 Reviews = Last single = Lovertits (2000) This… …

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  • 32set off — 1) PHRASAL VERB When you set off, you start a journey. [V P prep/adv] Nichols set off for his remote farmhouse in Connecticut... [V P prep/adv] The President s envoy set off on another diplomatic trip... [V P] I set off, full of optimism. Syn:… …

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  • 33Set —    In the myth of Osiris, Set is the child of Nut and Gea or Nut and Ra, the brother and husband of Nephthys, the brother of Isis and Osiris, and the uncle of Horus. He appears to have been a pre dynastic ruler of a tribe having an animal similar …

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  • 34set off — 1) they set off for America with nothing but the clothes on their backs Syn: set out, start out, sally forth, leave, depart, embark, set sail; informal hit the road 2) the bomb was set off Syn: detonate, explode, blow up, touc …

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  • 35set something off — 1 the bomb was set off: DETONATE, explode, blow up, touch off, trigger; ignite. 2 it set off a wave of protest: GIVE RISE TO, cause, lead to, set …

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  • 36hair-trigger — 1. noun /ˈhɛrˌtrɪɡɝ/ a trigger that will set off a firearm when even a very small pressure is applied ... the hunter brings the sight of his rifle to bear; lightly and delicately his finger presses upon the hair trigger. 2. adjective /ˈhɛrˌtrɪɡɝ/ …

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  • 37set·ter — /ˈsɛtɚ/ noun, pl ters [count] 1 : a person or thing that determines or establishes something As a teenager, she was a style setter for her younger sister. [=her younger sister copied her style] world record setters [=people who set world records] …

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  • 38hair trigger trouble —    a tendency to premature ejaculation    Like a pistol where the trigger is set for too light a pull:     The King, they said, suffered from a condition for which the medical name is hair trigger trouble . (A. Waugh in Daily Telegraph, 29 April… …

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  • 39hair trigger — noun a trigger of a firearm set for release at the slightest pressure …

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  • 40Human hair color — Hair color is the pigmentation of hair follicles due to the two types of melanin, eumelanin and phaeomelanin. Generally, if more melanin is present in the hair, the color of the hair is darker; if less melanin is present, the hair color is… …

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