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Coming into your own means the day one grows up, the day when he establishes himself amongst his peers.
You are alive and not just alive to achieve professional accomplishments.
A thorn in your side – a nagging pain or a thorny issue that lingers.
Home truths are the bitter and unpleasant truths, or facts that you don’t always tell other people if you can help it.
A spin doctor on the other hand is someone who “treats” a story. He “spins” a story, you see, as in the phrase “spin a yarn”, meaning to tell a long and winding story.
“Day of reckoning” was originally a religious term coming straight from the Christian Bible (Book of Isaiah): What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?
“David doesn’t do failure.”It means that David, David Frost that is, doesn’t accept failure. Or he doesn’t allow failure to happen. He won’t stop trying until he succeeds.
If you mess with a person, on the other hand, you confront them, get in their way,contradict them or even fistfight them. People are therefore warned not to mess with certain folks who are tough, strong, and generally known to be hard to defeat.
Aha moments are times when you realize something, something that's been bothering you for a long time, such as a philosophical question for lack of a good choice.
"Stretch run" simply means the final part of a long race or, by extension, any other undertaking or endeavor. Obviously, the final part is crucial – as the saying goes: all's well that ends well.
"What's the deal" is an American colloquialism. Depending on context, it may mean: What's the situation? What's happening? What's wrong? What's the problem? What's the matter?
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