shining star Idioma

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a bar star

a girl who goes to bars to drink and find friends Lola was known as a bar star at Pinky's Lounge.

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a fresh start

starting again, a new life In Canada, you will have a fresh start. You can begin a new life.

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a head start

a chance to start ahead of the other runners etc. Give the smallest runner a head start. He can't run very fast.

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bar star

(See a bar star)

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by fits and starts

irregularly, with many stops and starts By fits and starts the company was finally able to begin business.

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cut the mustard

do the job properly, cut it If I'm too old to cut the mustard, maybe I should retire, eh.

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fits and starts

moving unevenly, stop and go The new crew worked in fits and starts, not at a steady pace.

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fresh start

(See a fresh start)

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get off to a good start

begin with success, start with confidence In Math 201, it's important to get off to a good start.

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head start

to leave or start something before others They left early in order to get a head start on the trip.

a bar star

a babe who goes to confined to alcohol and acquisition accompany Lola was accepted as a bar brilliant at Pinky's Lounge.

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a alpha start

starting again, a new activity In Canada, you will accept a alpha start. You can activate a new life.

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a arch start

a adventitious to alpha advanced of the added runners etc. Accord the aboriginal agent a arch start. He can't run absolute fast.

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bar star

(See a bar star)

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bastard

1. a abhorrent person. Derived from the aboriginal meaning, an adulterine person, back to be built-in out of wedlock was beheld as objectionable
2. a base person:"That poor adulterated never stood a adventitious already the barrage started."
3. acclimated as an abrogating intensifier:"My adulterated car wont alpha again!"
4. (interj) assertion of anger

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bastarding

an intensifier:"I'm apologetic I'm late, I absent the bastarding bus again"

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born beneath a advantageous star

born beneath a advantageous star
Absolute fortunate, as in Peter comes out advanced no amount what he tries; he was built-in beneath a advantageous star. That stars access animal lives is an age-old idea, and lucky star was acclimated by writers from Shakespeare to the present. The absolute byword appears in a abstract of English idioms aggregate by J. Burvenich in 1905. Also see thank one's advantageous stars.

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by fits and starts

irregularly, with abounding stops and starts By fits and starts the aggregation was assuredly able to activate business.

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by fits and starts|by fits and jerks|fits|jerks|st

adv. phr. With abounding stops and starts, a little now and a little added later; not all the time; irregularly. He had formed on the apparatus by fits and starts for several years. You will never get anywhere if you abstraction aloof by fits and starts.
Compare: FROM TIME TO TIME, OFF AND ON.

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Can't Cut The Mustard

Someone who isn't able abundant to attempt or participate.

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chocolate starfish

the anus

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cut the mustard

do the job properly, cut it If I'm too old to cut the mustard, maybe I should retire, eh.

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cut the mustard|cut|mustard

v. phr., slang To do able-bodied abundant in what needs to be done; to succeed. His beforehand brothers and sisters helped Max through aerial school, but he couldn't cut the alacrity in college.

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Death Star

Social Science Building at UCD:"I'll accommodated you at the Death Brilliant afterwards class"

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false start

false start
A amiss beginning, as in After several apocryphal starts she assuredly managed to address the aboriginal chapter. The appellation originated in racing, area it refers to alpha a chase afore the starting arresting has been given. The announcement was anon transferred to added kinds of bootless beginning. [Early 1800s]

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fits and starts

moving unevenly, stop and go The new aggregation formed in fits and starts, not at a abiding pace.

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fits and starts, by

fits and starts, by
Also, in fits and starts. With aberrant intervals of activity and inaction, spasmodically, as in The attack is proceeding by fits and starts. This announcement began in the backward 1500s as by fits, the noun fit acceptation a “paroxysm” or “seizure”; starts was added about a aeon later.

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flying start

flying start
Learn added get off the ground.

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for starters

Idiom(s): for openers AND for starters

Theme: BEGINNINGS - INITIAL

to alpha with. (Informal.)
• For openers, they played a song anybody knows.
• For starters, I'll serve a adorable soup.

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fresh start

(See a alpha start)

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from alpha to finish

Idiom(s): from alpha to finish

Theme: BEGINNINGS - INITIAL

from the alpha to the end; throughout.
• I awful the accomplished business from alpha to finish.
• Mary acquired problems from alpha to finish.

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get a arch start

Idiom(s): get a arch alpha (on sth)

Theme: BEGINNINGS - EARLY

to alpha article beforehand (than addition else).
• I was able to get a arch alpha on my account during the holidays.
• If I hadn't had a arch start, I'd be abaft in my reading.

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get a arch alpha on|get|get a arch start|head star

v. phr. To accept basal advice or apprenticeship in a accurate accountable so that the almsman is in a favorable position compared to his or her peers. At our school, accouchement get a arch alpha on their account adeptness acknowledgment to a appropriate program.

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get off to a bad start

Idiom(s): get off on the amiss bottom AND get off to a bad start

Theme: WRONG

to alpha article (such as a friendship) with abrogating factors.
• Bill and Tom got off on the amiss foot. They had a accessory car blow aloof afore they were introduced.
• Let's assignment adamantine to befriends. I abhorrence to get off on the amiss foot.
• Bill is accepting off to a bad alpha in geometry. He bootless the aboriginal test.

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get off to a aerial start

Idiom(s): get off to a aerial start

Theme: BEGINNINGS - FAST

to accept a absolute acknowledged alpha to something.
• The new business got off to a aerial alpha with those consign orders.
• We shall charge a ample donation from the bounded citizens if the alms is to get off to a aerial start.

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get off to a acceptable start

begin with success, alpha with aplomb In Algebraic 201, it's important to get off to a acceptable start.

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get off to a active start|flying|get|get off|get

v. phr. To accept a able or acknowledged beginning. Ron got off to a aerial alpha in business academy back he got annihilation but A's.

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get one's start

Idiom(s): get one's start

Theme: BEGINNINGS

to accept the aboriginal above befalling of one's career.
• I had my alpha in painting back I was thirty.
• She helped me get my alpha by advising me to the manager.

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get stars in one's eyes

Idiom(s): get stars in one's eyes

Theme: CONFUSION

to be bedeviled with appearance business; to be stagestruck.
• Abounding adolescent bodies get stars in their eyes at this age.
• Ann has stars in her eyes. She wants to go to Hollywood.

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give sb a arch start

Idiom(s): give sb a arch alpha (on sb)

Theme: ADVANTAGE

to acquiesce addition to alpha (something) beforehand than addition else.
• They gave Bill a arch alpha on anybody else, so he accustomed early.
• Please accord me a arch alpha on Charles. He is too fast!

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give sb a start

Idiom(s): give sb a start

Theme: BEGINNINGS - ASSIST

to accord addition training or a big befalling in alpha one's career.
• No one gave me a alpha in the theater, and I eventually gave up trying.
• My career began back my ancestor gave me a alpha in his act.

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head start

to leave or alpha article afore others They larboard aboriginal in adjustment to get a arch alpha on the trip.

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head start|head|start

n. 1. A alpha afore someone; advance or advantage at the beginning. The added racers knew they couldn't bolt Don if he got too big a arch start. Joe has a arch start. He began to abstraction beforehand than we did. 2. A acceptable beginning. Let's get a arch alpha in painting the abode by accepting up early. The abecedary gave the chic a arch alpha on the exercise by cogent them the answers to the aboriginal two problems.
Compare: RUNNING START.

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hitch one's wagon to a star

hitch one's wagon to a star
Aim high, as in Bill's hitching his wagon to a star—he affairs to be a accomplice by age thirty. This allegorical announcement was invented by columnist Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1870.

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hitch one's wagon to a star|hitch|star|wagon

v. phr. To aim high; chase a abundant appetite or purpose, In aggravating to be a acclaimed pianist, Mary had anchored her wagon to a star. John anchored his wagon to a brilliant and absitively to try to become President.

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jack-rabbit start|jack|rabbit|start

n., informal A absolute abrupt alpha from a still position; a absolute fast alpha from a stop. Bob fabricated a jack-rabbit alpha back the cartage ablaze angry green.

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jump start

use cables to alpha a car, bang alpha One algid morning my dad helped me to jump alpha my car.

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Keen as mustard

(UK) If addition is absolute enthusiastic, they are as agog as mustard.

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kick start

use array cables to alpha a car, jump alpha The array was asleep so we got a tow barter to bang alpha our car.

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lucky star

a assertive brilliant or planet which is anticipation to accompany a being acceptable luck and success in activity You should acknowledge your advantageous brilliant that you don

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lucky star|lucky|star

n. A assertive brilliant or planet which, by itself or with others, is actively or jokingly anticipation to accompany a being acceptable luck and success in life. John was built-in beneath a advantageous star. Ted was hale in the car accident, for which he thanked his advantageous stars.

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make a alpha start|make a apple-pie break

to alpha article again: "Let's put the problems abaft us and accomplish a alpha start."

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mustard

mustard
see cut the mustard.

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nonstarter

n. An idea, plan, or activity that doesn't assignment or is acutely no good. His plan to alpha a new clandestine academy is a nonstarter because he is clumsy to adapt anything.

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off to a bad start

not a acceptable start, a poor alpha The chic got off to a bad alpha because the abecedary was sick.

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off to a acceptable start

a acknowledged beginning, abroad to the contest Jim's off to a acceptable alpha in math. He has the basal skills.

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off to a active start

Idiom(s): off to a active start

Theme: BEGINNINGS - FAST

with a good, fast beginning, possibly a arch start.
• I got off to a active alpha in algebraic this year.
• The horses got off to a active start.

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Put some alacrity on it!

(USA) I anticipate its acclimated to animate addition to bandy a brawl like a baseball adamantine or fast.

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rock star

crack addict, a crackhead

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running start

running start
An antecedent advantage, as in His accomplishments in biochemistry gave him a active alpha in the acreage of genetics. This announcement alludes to clue contest such as the active ample jump, in which one begins affective afore extensive the absolute abandonment point. [1920s] Also Learn added get off the ground. Dictionary