[canned music] {n.} Recorded music, as opposed to music played live. * /"Let us go to a real concert, honey," Mike said. "I am tired of all this canned music […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

be nuts about

[be nuts about] {v. phr.} To be enthusiastic or very keen about someone or something; be greatly infatuated with someone. * /Hermione is nuts about modern music./ * /"I am […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

face the music

[face the music] {v. phr.}, {informal} To go through trouble or danger, especially because of something you did; accept your punishment. * /The boy was caught cheating in an examination […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

set to music

[set to music] {v. phr.} To compose a musical accompaniment to verse. * /Schubert and Beethoven both set to music many a famous poem by Goethe and Schiller./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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Friedrich Nietzshe

The Germans are like women. You can scarcely ever fathom their depths--they haven't any.

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filth (the)

[filth (the)] {n.} The police (derogatory).

ad lib

[ad lib] {v. phr.} To improvise; interpolate during speech. * /When the actress forgot her lines during the second act, she […]

brave it out

[brave it out] {v. phr.} To endure something difficult or dangerous through to the end; keep on through trouble or danger. * […]

I would like to buy a hamburger

A fragment from "Pink Panther" movie: the French secret agent tries to learn the correct English accent to avaiod suspision.

go-go

[go-go] {adj.}, {slang}, {informal} 1. Vigorous youthful, unusually active. * /Joe is a go-go kind of guy./ 2. Of a […]

lounge lizard

[lounge lizard] {n. phr.} A well-dressed male fortune hunter who sits around in bars and other public places, and attends many […]