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Question 1

Lick her wounds

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Question 2

We were playing house, making steak

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Question 3

You have a jagged chin now

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Question 4

There is a fine line between humour and inappropriateness

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Question 5

The president has been treading a fine line on immigration

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Question 6

In Riyadh, the absolute monarchy of Saudi Arabia walks a fine line to maintain power

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Question 7

Show signs of gathering pace

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Question 8

Leaving a gratuity is de rigueur when dining out because pay for restaurant servers is so low

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Question 9

Corporate data governance is in the process of moving from de rigueur to de facto to de jure

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Question 10

Plenty of musicians have their own blogs and online tour diaries become de rigueur

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Question 11

Tipping is not required nor expected

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Question 12

A downside of the no-tipping policy is the shock that patrons may sometimes suffer when perusing menus that have tips already factored into the prices

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Question 13

Folding tips into the meal tab has the benefit of protecting waiters from being short-changed by the occasional tight-fisted diner

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Question 14

A particularly mean-spirited remark from her stepmother finally estranged Maggie from her family, and she has not been home since

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Question 15

After a two-year hiatus, Avon Old Farms Inn restaurant has brought back its a la carte menus for lunch and dinner, and has resurrected its Sunday brunch

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Question 16

This is our A La Carte menu: you can select as many items as you need

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Question 17

To circumvent national currency controls

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Question 18

The satirical structure and style of the novel are suggested by an epigraph from the travel book of Mark Twain

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Question 19

Each of the twelve poems in the third section of the book sports an epigraph from a Emerson essay

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Question 20

The epigraph, a quotation from Dante, further obscures the atmosphere

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Question 21

Along with dangerous health struggles, Luna finds herself contending with the legacy of shame and secrecy that surround issues of sexuality in the Latino community

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Question 22

Factions within the government were contending for the succession to the presidency

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Question 23

As for his constituency neglect rebuke, Francis contends that his claims still stand

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Question 24

The power of the chairman will not go unchecked

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Question 25

The chapter seems more like a review than a synthesis, and I found myself more than once wishing for a more crisp, synoptic summary of the primary arguments of the schools and of the chapter

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Question 26

The final volume includes a directory of the 1400 contributors, a synoptic outline of contents, and a 61-page index

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Question 27

They argue that the problem does not exist, or has been grossly exaggerated, and they call the reformers alarmists, fanatics, scaremongers, prophets of doom and so on

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Question 28

Most oddly, while implacably committed to family duties and the bringing up of children, the novel succeeds in portraying both as a burden almost beyond human bearing

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Question 29

Prom King and Prom Queen

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Question 30

Some people say a man is made out of mud

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Question 31

A good man is made of muscle and blood

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Question 32

And mine that is weak and the back that is strong

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Question 33

You load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older, and deeper in debt

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Question 34

Heliocentrism was opposed to geocentrism, which placed the Earth at the centre

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Question 35

His ideas contradicted the then-prevailing understanding of the Bible

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Question 36

Travelzoo eyes 200 million Chinese travellers

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Question 37

Even though she was so gregarious and loved to chat, she also liked to listen

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Question 38

He is naturally gregarious, and the work obviously suits him

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Question 39

Fake it til you make it

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Question 40

Under the hot sun, it is a war of attrition

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Question 41

He was trying to goad her into a fight

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Question 42

When I used to meet him regularly outside the Brompton Oratory after his Sunday devotions, it took little prompting to goad him into a diatribe against his latest enemy

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Question 43

I did not realise that people would attempt to goad us into aggression at regular intervals

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Question 44

Be a bit fuzzy around the edges

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Question 45

They seek to kick out the centre from its campus when the deal is up, saying the institutes came with too many political strings attached

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Question 46

The dubious practice has compromised the academic integrity of the university

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Question 47

They need a foot in the door to learn the skill

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Question 48

To set his mind at ease

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Question 49

Come from humble background

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Question 50

Blow/throw a kiss

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Question 51

French kiss vs Platonic kiss

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Question 52

Kiss of peace

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Question 53

Snatch/steal a kiss

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Question 54

She kissed away his pain

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Question 55

Hong Kong is losing ground against regional rivals

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Question 56

Politicians are quick to blame the declining competitiveness and its whinging youth

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Question 57

You just need to be confident and stay relevant in a rapidly developing Asian economy

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Question 58

A grudging apology

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Question 59

They are often in jobs for which they were overqualified and grudgingly underpaid

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Question 60

He was not even gracious enough to apologise and did not do so until some time later when it became expedient, in terms of his public image, to offer a grudging and less than grovelling apology

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Question 61

The First Minister eventually decided to go to Normandy, but his decision to do so, and the accompanying apology, was seen as grudging and petulant

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Question 62

This is a global phenomenon, for the impact of technology in destroying and deskilling even very highly paid jobs has been pervasive

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Question 63

They have merely added supply to the revolving-door job market

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Question 64

The unemployment rate of Hong Kong is the envy of the world at 3.1 percent. And yet there is something not quite right

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Question 65

Employment dissatisfaction is a global phenomenon made obvious by the surge in fringe and extreme politics

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Question 66

Ordinary people globally are hacked off because, no matter how hard they work, the owners of capital always seem many steps ahead

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Question 67

In China, the leaders have their fingers firmly on this global movement

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Question 68

A great wave of change is likely to bring parties to power that will pander to populism

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Question 69

Stock markets will find a headwind in every policy

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Question 70

This is not ardent left-wing political policy but strictly business

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Question 71

The business of politicians is to stay in power under the influence of raw economics that inexorably moves the balance from one side to another, leaving winners and losers in its wake

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Question 72

Very tellingly

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Question 73

On health ground

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Question 74

A breeze snuffed out the candle

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Question 75

My candle was snuffed out and I knew it would never relight again

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Question 76

But solid Warrior defence snuffs out the early threat

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Question 77

He came back on the offensive but still the York side tackled hard to snuff out scoring chances

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Question 78

I am a citizen of Caucasian origin, having grown up in a bourgeois middle class environment in New Orleans, but I had long become alienated from that segment of the population

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Question 79

Always put your baby in her cot when falling asleep at night, so that she can learn to associate it with bedtime

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Question 80

Sleeping between five and seven, some have futons for spare beds, cots for babies and can accommodate pets

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Question 81

The dance floor was crowded with revellers

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Question 82

In the center of the small bedroom is a double bed draped with handmade quilts, and the small group of women crowds the narrow spaces surrounding it

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Question 83

Two-hourly reminders to void may control many incontinent people, especially in the nursing home

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Question 84

This covers the initial error and later events, when I went into retention a third time, lost the sensation of urination, and was doubly incontinent with diminished sensation in the genital region

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Question 85

Jack heaved himself from the well-worn seat of a golf buggy that had seen better years and grinned as his tanned wrist reached for a trusty 9-iron

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Question 86

The nail of their coffins is the lack of air

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Question 87

The authorities swung into action

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Question 88

An uncanny resemblance

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Question 89

The stories take on its momentum

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Question 90

We really have to go the extra mile

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Question 91

for the overextended borrowers, the chickens have come home to roost

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Question 92

Migrating martins and swallows were settling to roost

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Question 93

High concentrations of the organism can be found in bird roosts, caves inhabited by bats, school yards, areas with rotten or decaying wood, and chicken coops

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Question 94

That leaves us scratching our heads

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Question 95

They looked at the scanty, unsavoury portions of food doled out to them

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Question 96

Skittish investors withdrew their money from equity markets

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Question 97

A skittish chestnut mare

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Question 98

I think they are generally skittish and ill-tempered animals

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Question 99

The notion seems to be that the mere look, the urbanity, the smirking of blue staters appalls the skittish people of the heartland

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Question 100

Frivolous ribbons and lacy frills

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