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Basically it means they regret having previously agreed to do something.
With a closed book, you cannot see what it’s about and therefore remain mystified.
For us humans, our metaphorical shell is where we feel safe, our comfort zone, so to speak.
When people say "spitting image", they mean to say that two people look exactly alike.
“Hail Mary” is a prayer among Christians, uttered when they want to ask for holy intervention.
Damp squibs become synonymous with anything that fails to work properly, anything that is not up to expectation.
To sit on the fence is to remain neutral or to stay undecided or to be unable to take a side at all.
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