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1. 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...
2. et alibi, phr. View full entry 1549
...In printed or written text: ‘and elsewhere’ (in the specified text)....
3. † God-a-thank, phr. View full entry 1657
4. menetekel, n. and phr. View full entry 1649
...A sign or warning of impending disaster, an obscure omen; = mene mene tekel upharsin...
5. mutato nomine, phr. View full entry a1661
...With the name or names being changed (used with reference to an observation that remains applicable in a different context if the name of the person, place, etc., concerned is altered accordingly)....
6. nante palari, phr. View full entry 1846
...imper. ‘Be quiet’, ‘shut up’; ‘no talking’....
7. no go, phr., adj., and n. View full entry 1825
...As predicate (sometimes with omission of the copula): of no use; impossible, hopeless; (of a contest) indecisive....
8. nominis umbra, phr. View full entry 1822
...An insubstantial thing or person. Also: a name without substance; a thing which is not what the name implies....
9. non est, phr. and adj. View full entry 1832
...The person was not to be found; = non est inventus Cf. non inventusObs....
10. † non inventus, phr. and adj. View full entry 1637
...Law. = non est inventus...
11. non liquet, n., phr., and adj. View full entry 1605
...Chiefly Law. A verdict of non liquet (see sense B.), given in cases of doubt. Also (in extended use): a condition of doubt or uncertainty....
12. non placet, phr. and n. View full entry 1572
...In a university or Church assembly: expressing a negative vote upon a proposition. Also in extended use....
13. plus ça change, phr. View full entry 1955
...‘The more things change, the more they stay the same’: used to suggest that human nature, institutions, etc., are always fundamentally the same, despite apparent changes....
14. probatum est, phr. and n. View full entry 1526
...Orig. in recipes or prescriptions: ‘it has been proved or tested’. Hence more generally, used as a formula of approval or recommendation, or to indicate a proven truth....
15. quid pro quo, phr. and n. View full entry ?1535
...One thing in place of another; esp. with reference to a medicine which is or may be substituted for another. Obs....
16. rectus in curia, phr. View full entry 1611
...Innocent, acquitted; right from a legal standpoint; having full legal rights (cf. legal1b). Also in extended use....
17. rim ram ruff, phr. and n. View full entry c1405
...Used by Chaucer to evoke the effect of medieval alliterative verse. Cf. raffObs.rare....
18. sus. per coll., phr. View full entry 1560
...abbreviation of Latin suspendatur per collum ‘let him be hanged by the neck’, in the entry of a capital sentence in the jailer's books; an entry of this against a...
19. what reck | whatreck, phr. (and adv.) View full entry ?a1513
...interrog. ‘What matter?’, ‘what does it matter?’, ‘so what?’ Also parenthetically as : for all that, nevertheless....
