a friend may dislike you if you do not respect his or her privacy Don't call Margaret Maggie. Remember, familiarity breeds contempt.
breed
to have sex:"Yo girl, we gonna breed or what?"
give one one's freedom
Idiom(s): give one one's freedom
Theme: FREEDOM
to set someone free; to divorce someone. • Mrs. Brown wanted to give her husband his freedom. • Well, Tom, I hate to break it to you this way, but I have decided to give you your freedom.
broken reed
broken reed A weak or unreliable support, as in I'd counted on her to help, but she turned out to be a broken reed. The idea behind this idiom, first recorded about 1593, was already present in a mid-15th-century translation of a Latin tract, “Trust not nor lean not upon a windy reed.”
An reed idiom dictionary is a great resource for writers, students, and anyone looking to expand their vocabulary. It contains a list of words with similar meanings with reed, allowing users to choose the best word for their specific context.
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