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“Behind the eight ball” refers to a position of difficulty from which one is unlikely to extricate themselves.
Reading the riot act means giving someone a strong warning – before further actions are taken against them as punishment.
In the old days soldiers keep a bag of powders as today’s soldiers carry a supply of metal bullets as ammunition.
People who get the raw end of the deal are harshly, especially unfairly treated.
“Finest hour” means the best hour, the moment when something happens that makes your day.
Shoppers running up the white flag means they’re losing the battle against such enemies as inflation, wage freezes and job insecurity.
It is a process of doing several jobs at the same time and making sure all jobs are done well, equally well.
To call time on something is to say time is up, the game is over and let’s call it a day.
It means the gains made from getting some job done won’t be enough to buy the oil burnt from the lamp during the process.
It is used to describe things in life that are affected by such cycles of high and low, up and down.
Train of thought, which, by the way, means a series of connected thoughts developing in one’s mind.
Fair play? That means behavior that’s in accordance with rules of a game.
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