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“A long day” or by extension “a long night” is an expression that indicates difficult experiences.
It is a way of expressing our strong determination when we want to make some point clear, take a stand while showing we are resolute.
To see one's way clear to do something is to be willing to do it and to find the necessary tools to do it – usually in spite of obvious obstacles.
If you have people under your thumb, you are kind of, like, likening them to a small insect, such as an ant on the table.
Choice words are often euphemisms for curse words and other obscene words that are sometimes not even fit for print or repetition.
If someone is described as flying too close to the sun, he or she is being reckless and rash, driven hubris or arrogance.
One person uses the other as a sounding board so as to see how his or her ideas sound to the other person.
Anyways, baker's dozen means 13 – not twelve, the number a dozen usually represents.
Grapevine is anonymous with the rumor mill, the unofficial channel through which information, or rather, gossip is shared.
One's better angels or the better angels of our nature represent the Godliness in us.
They mean to say they shouldn't have done it had they fully followed their head instead of the heart.
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