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William Dean Howells (1837—1920)

U.S. author, editor, and critic

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week

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on the hour

[on the hour] {adv. phr.} Each time the hour has zero minutes and zero seconds. * /The uptown bus goes past the school on the hour./ * /The woman must […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

William R. Inge

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make a racket

[make a racket] {v. phr.} To cause a lot of noisy disturbance. * /I wish the kids playing in the street wouldn't make such a […]

Horace

(65-8 B.C.), 13 B.C. Satires The man is either crazy, or he is a poet.

Betamaxed

[Betamaxed] When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition as in "Microsoft betamaxed […]

missing link

[missing link] {n.} 1. Something needed to complete a group; a missing part of a chain of things. * /A 1936 penny was the […]

sum total

[sum total] {n.} The final amount; everything taken together; total. * /The sum total of expenses for the trip was $450./ * […]