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James Dunne

The quiet Irishman is about as harmless as a powder magazine built over a match factory.

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take a powder

[take a powder] {v. phr.}, {slang} To leave hurriedly; run out or away; desert, flee. * /All the gang except one had taken a powder when the police arrived./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

jerry-built

[jerry-built] {adj.} 1. Built poorly or carelessly of cheap materials; easily broken. * /That jerry-built cabin will blow apart in a strong wind./ 2. Done without careful preparation or thought; […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

George Bernard Shaw

(1856-1950), "The Impossible Irish," 1907 Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. www.english-slang.com

meet one's match

[meet one's match] {v. phr.} To encounter someone as good as oneself. * /The champion finally met his match and lost the game./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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hard way

[hard way] {n.} The harder or more punishing of two or more ways to solve a problem, do something, or learn something. - Used […]

worth a cent

[worth a cent] {adj. phr.} Worth anything; of any value. - Used in negative, interrogative, and conditional sentences. * […]

Carolyn Kenmore, Mannequin: My Life as a Model

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.

newb

[newb] Short for "newbie"; meaning someone who is new, usually at a game.

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Guy Wemore Carryl, "Beer," The Mauve Decade

It takes two bodies to make one seduction.

off one's head (or out of one's head)

[off one's head (or out of one's head)] {adj.} Mad or delirious.

all eyes

[all eyes] {adj. phr.}, {informal} Wide-eyed with surprise or curiosity; watching very closely. - Used in the predicate. * […]