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Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

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wheel and deal

[wheel and deal] {v. phr.}, {slang} To make many big plans or schemes; especially with important people in government and business; in matters of money and influence; handle money or […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Darrin Weinberg

It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. www.english-slang.com

grow up

[grow up] {v.} 1. To increase in size or height; become taller or older; reach full height. * /Johnny is growing up; his shoes are too small for him./ * […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

engage in small talk

[engage in small talk] {v. phr.} To converse with a stranger or casual acquaintance about matters of no great importance in order to make the time go faster. * /The […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Slang is

"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

An idiom is

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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matter of record

[matter of record] {n. phr.} A fact or event that is kept officially as a legal record. * /If you are convicted of speeding […]

screw around

[screw around] {v. phr.}, {vulgar}, {avoidable} To hang around idly without accomplishing anything, to loaf about, to beat or […]

R.B. Cunningham-Graham

(1852-1936) in letter to Teddy Roosevelt, 1917 God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Reasonable thinking boils down to the interpretation on the basis of a concept we cannot fling off.

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Lessons on American and British English differences.

Prairie Dogging

[Prairie Dogging] When something loud happens in a cube farm, causing heads to pop up over the walls trying to see what's going […]

hurry on with

[hurry on with] or [make haste with] {v. phr.} To make rapid progress in an undertaking. * /Sue promised to hurry on with […]