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English Idioms :: labor movement
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lkelet.html - {n.} Groups which form, strengthen, and increase membership in labor unions. * /His father was connected with the labor movement in the 1920's./ |
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English Idioms :: labor of love
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lkelet.html - {n. phr.} Something done for personal pleasure and not pay or profit. * /Building the model railroad was a labor of love for the retired engineer./ |
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English Idioms :: labor the point
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lkelet.html - See: BELABOR THE POINT. |
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English Idioms :: labor under
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lkelet.html - {v. phr.} To be the victim of; suffer from. * /Ken is obviously laboring under the delusion that Jennifer will marry him out of love./ |
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English Idioms :: ladies' room
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lkelet.html - {n. phr.} A public toilet and restroom for women. * /Can you please tell me where the ladies' room is?/ |
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English Idioms :: lady friend
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lkelet.html - {n.} 1. A woman friend. * /His aunt stays with a lady friend in Florida during the winter./ 2. A woman who is the lover of a man. - Used by people trying to appear more polite, but not often used by careful speakers. * /The lawyer took his lady friend to dinner./ Syn.: GIRLFRIEND. |
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