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1. absit omen, phr. View full entry 1594
...‘May the omen be absent’: used as an imprecation when referring to a possible undesirable event, in the hope that it will not come to pass....
2. America First, phr. and adj. View full entry 1915
...A slogan: ‘put the interests of the U.S. first’....
3. anathema maranatha, phr. View full entry 1526
...These words occur together in 1 Cor. xvi. 22. According to modern criticism, maran atha is a distinct sentence having no connection with anathema; but in...
4. après moi le déluge, phr. View full entry 1824
...‘After me the flood.’ Used to express complete indifference to what may happen when one is gone. Cf. after me the delugeafter6....
5. après nous le déluge, phr. View full entry 1809
...‘After us the flood.’ Used to express complete indifference to what may happen when one is gone. Cf. après moi le déluge...
6. as if, phr. View full entry 1892
...Introducing a supposition, or way of conceiving some entity or situation, that is not to be taken literally, but yields some insight or convenience in metaphysics. Also absol. and ...
7. aˈtweel, phr. View full entry 1768
...? Contracted from wat weel = ‘wot well’; sometimes aphetized to 'tweel....
8. au reste, phr. View full entry 1752
...As for the rest....
9. ava | ava', phr. View full entry 1768
...Of all; at all....
10. avast, phr. View full entry 1681
...Hold! stop! stay! cease!...
11. bags I, phr. View full entry 1866
...A formula used (orig. by children) to assert a claim to an article, or the right to act in a certain way, on the ground that one is the first to speak...
12. † biˈhalve | biˈhalven | biˈhalves, phr., adv., and prep. View full entry a1000
...By the side, beside....
13. c'est la vie, phr. View full entry 1854
...Expressing resignation at, or acceptance of, things as they are; = that's lifelife9c....
14. chacun à son goût, phr. View full entry 1784
...Each to his own taste....
15. cock-a-hoop, phr. View full entry 1529
...Phrase. to set (the) cock on (the) hoop, cock a hoop: app. to turn on the tap and let the liquor flow; hence, to drink without stint; to drink and...
16. cock-and-bull, phr. View full entry 1624
...lit....
17. † cock-and-pie, phr. View full entry 1550
...Used in an asseveration....
18. coûte que coûte, phr. View full entry 1715
...Cost what it may; at all costs....
19. de son tort, phr. View full entry 1670
...By his own wrongdoing, without authorization; spec. in phrases, e.g. executor de son tort (see executor3b), de son tort demesne (see quot. ...
20. † drop vie | drop-vie, phr. View full entry 1598
...To drop pieces of money or the like in competition or rivalry, trying which can outdo the other; to compete in alternate efforts, to bid against each other, to vie....
