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"Hit Or Miss"
Sometimes good or successful, sometimes not; having mixed or unpredictable results; random, aimless, careless, or haphazard. |
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Crazy, demented, out of one's mind, in a confused or befuddled state of mind, senile. |
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"A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss."
Meaning that if a person keeps moving from one place to another, they will not get many friends or possessions. A person, who keeps changing from place to place has no roots and hence no responsibilities. |
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"One Man's Meat Is Another Man's Poison/ One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure.
What one person may consider good, enjoyable, or beneficial may be disliked by someone else. |
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"Don't Cut Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face"
Meaning acting out of pique, or against pursuing revenge in a way that would damage oneself more than the object of one's anger. |
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Don't Burn Your House To Smoke Out A Rat!
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To be in a particularly and persistently irritable, unhappy, or grouchy mood or state, especially when it is not in line with one's normal disposition. |
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This of course was regarded as treason by the Senate, and the incident sparked a civil war which resulted in the general - Julius Caesar - taking sole charge of the Roman state, turning the Senate into little more than a bureaucratic rubber-stamping body. And so Rome gained its first emperor. The phrase Alea iacta est means that the dice (alea) have been thrown, but have not yet landed, so the outcome of the throw is unknown. It's often translated into English as "the die is cast" but in modern English that appears to mean that things are set, whereas the original meant that all is in a state of flux. Some prefer "Throw the dice high!" as capturing the spirit of the original better. And from this same incident, we get "crossing the Rubicon", meaning that a point of no return has been reached. |
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Sucking up to someone to ingratiate oneself. Bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them. |
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