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As the crow flies

Idiom meaning the shortest distance between two points

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What's that got to do with the...?

Common English expression

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Trial by media

Perception of one's guilt or innocence via coverage

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Horse trading

Complex bargaining or exchange

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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

Sentence composed of homonyms

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Frodo Lives!

Counterculture slogan

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Fig leaf

Artistic or metaphorical censorship practice

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Darby and Joan

British expression for a happily married couple

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Mumbo jumbo (phrase)

Phrase for confusing or meaningless language

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch

English phrase

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Ship of fools

Allegory by Plato

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Teach fish how to swim
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Etaoin shrdlu

Common metal-type printing error

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Hear, hear

Expression

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Silent treatment

Refusal to communicate with someone who desires communication

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Bullseye (philately)

Type of stamp cancellation

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Gratis versus libre

Two meanings of "free" in English

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Poisoning the well

Type of informal fallacy

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Sands of time (idiom)

English idiom for passage of time

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Shit happens

Slang phrase used as a simple existential observation

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Suffer fools gladly

Biblical phrase

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Mazel tov

Jewish phrase for congratulations

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The real McCoy

Idiom and metaphor in the English language

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Bed of roses

English-language expression for a carefree life

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Thinking man's crumpet

Humorous slang term

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Cupboard love

Psychoanalytic theory of attachment

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At Dulcarnon

English phrase – at the end of one's wits

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Cut and run

English expression

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Dumbing down

Deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content

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Crime of the century

Idiomatic phrase

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By hook or by crook

English phrase

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Greek to me

Idiom for knowledge not understandable

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Great Scott

Exclamation of surprise or dismay

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Lipstick on a pig

Idiom

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God bless you

English phrase

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Kick the bucket

English idiom meaning "to die"

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Fall guy

Person who is wrongly blamed for a bad outcome

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No soap radio

Joke phrase

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I'm alright, Jack

British expression

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Pardon my French

English phrase disguising profanity as words from the French language

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Nappy Valley

Colloquial epithet

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Talking past each other

Social phenomena

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Mind your own business

English saying often abbreviated as MYOB

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Three Bs

Phrase

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Signal strength and readability report

Quality rating of radio communications

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Teachable moment

Time at which learning a particular idea becomes possible or easiest

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Two wrongs don't make a right

Philosophical expression

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To the nines

English idiom

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Thy name is

Snowclone

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And/or

Grammatical conjunction purported to give more information than 'or'

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