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12-18-2017, 07:44 PM
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"To take a leaf out of someone’s book" .................
To imitate a particular (usually admirable) quality that someone else possesses. |
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12-18-2017, 08:12 PM
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Being single is a good thing and I like it. 
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"Let's get the show on the road."
1930s reference probably from circus or travelling theatre group, used in a line in "From Here to Eternity," a favorite saying in a Kindergarten room to begin a new activity. 
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12-19-2017, 12:43 PM
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"That’s the way the cookie crumbles" ...
A situation that must be accepted. |
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12-19-2017, 12:45 PM
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"The icing on the cake"........
An additional benefit/disaster that improves/worsens an already very good/bad situation. Sidebar: I had never known this idiom relating to a negative. In the Midwest for a negative idiom, it would be "And The Topper Was" |
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12-19-2017, 12:51 PM
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"At A Crossroads / "At Fork In The Road"............. –
At a point where an important decision must be made. |
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12-19-2017, 12:52 PM
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"Fish Or Cut Bait"................
Work productively on something or give up. |
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12-19-2017, 12:54 PM
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"Damned If I Do, Damned If I Don't".........
A situation in which one can't win. |
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12-19-2017, 12:57 PM
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"Can't Win For Losing".........................
A phrase meaning that things would be going great for you if they weren't going so badly. One is unable to find or create any success; one has been constantly and/or thoroughly defeated, bested, or belittled. |
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