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(1872-1933)
U.S. resort architect
Never drink from your finger bowl--it contains only water.J
Quizzes on idioms starting with Jstand over
[stand over] {v.}
1. To watch closely; keep checking all the time.
* /Ted's mother had to stand over him to get him to do […]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 […]E. Verrall Lucas
(1868-1938)
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.Graybar Land
[Graybar Land]
The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch […]BBL
[BBL]
"Be back later"This is what has recently happened on English-Slang.com
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