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Igor Stravinsky

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

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Igor Stravinsky

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. www.english-slang.com

second childhood

[second childhood] {n. phr.} Senility; dotage. * /"Grandpa is in his second childhood; we must make allowances for him at the dinner table," my mother said, as Grandpa dropped food […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Igor Stravinsky

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. www.english-slang.com

Igor Stravinsky

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. www.english-slang.com

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an expression "whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements… or from the general grammatical rules of a language"

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can of worms

[can of worms] {n.}, {slang}, {informal} 1. A complex problem, or complicated situation. * /Let's not get into big city […]

wait on

[wait on] or [wait upon] {v.} 1. To serve. * /Sue has a summer job waiting on an invalid./ * /The clerk in the store asked […]

George Bernard Shaw

(1856-1950), Irish author There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

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[PvE] Player versus environment

Lynda Montgomery

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God....I could be eating a […]

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cliffdweller

[cliffdweller] {n.}, {slang}, {informal} A city person who lives on a very high floor in an apartment building. * /Joe and […]

consumer goods

[consumer goods] or [consumer items] {n.} Food and manufactured things that people buy for their own use. * /In time of war, […]