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Traditional English :: grasping
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grasping.html - adj. avaricious, greedy. graspingly adv. graspingness n. |
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Traditional English :: grasp
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grasping.html - v. & n. --v. 1 tr. a clutch at; seize greedily. b hold firmly; grip.
2 intr. (foll. by at) try to seize; accept avidly.
3 tr. understand or realize (a fact or meaning). --n. 1 a firm hold; a grip.
2 (foll. by of) a mastery or control (a grasp of the situation). b a mental hold or understanding (a grasp of the facts).
3 mental agility (a quick grasp). grasp at a straw see STRAW . grasp the nettle tackle a difficulty boldly. within one's grasp capable of being grasped or comprehended by one. graspable adj. grasper n. [ME graspe, grapse perh. f. OE gr psan (unrecorded) f. Gmc, rel. to GROPE: cf. LG grapsen] |
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Traditional English :: grasping
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grasping.html - adj. avaricious, greedy. graspingly adv. graspingness n. |
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English Idioms :: grass
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grasping.html - See: LET GRASS GROW UNDER ONE'S FEET, SNAKE IN THE GRASS. |
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English Idioms :: grass is always greener on the other side of the hill
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grasping.html - We are often not satisfied and want to be somewhere else; a place that is far away or different seems better than where we are. * /John is always changing his job because the grass always looks greener to him on the other side of the fence./ |
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English Idioms :: grasshopper
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grasping.html - See: KNEE-HIGH TO A GRASSHOPPER |
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