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Albert Einstein

I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to.

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Albert Einstein

Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us […] www.english-slang.com

pull up one's socks

[pull up one's socks] {v. phr.} To try to do better, either in terms of one's behavior or at a task one is performing. * /I'll have to pull up […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Albert Einstein

(1879-1955) physicist, author of theory of relativity. "Albert Einstein reshaped our cosmos by supplanting long-treasured concepts of physics with shockingly counterintuitive ideas about the nature of space and time. It […] www.english-slang.com

wear

[wear] See: [IF THE SHOE FITS, WEAR IT], [WASH AND WEAR], [WORSE FOR WEAR]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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"very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid and ephemeral than ordinary language" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary) - learn ~600 slang expressions

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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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hold one's breath

[hold one's breath] {v. phr.} 1. To stop breathing for a moment when you are excited or nervous. * /The race was so close […]

stick to one's ribs

[stick to one's ribs] or [stick to the ribs] {v. phr.}, {informal} To keep you from getting hungry again too quickly. * […]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

(160-43 B.C.), Roman philosopher No sane man will dance.

BFN

[BFN] "Bye for now"

BBS

[BBS] "Be back soon", or "bulletin board system/service"

Don Addis

(1935--) U.S. editorial cartoonist Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse.

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