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Idioms and Phrases
You are aware, you see, do you remember, as in She's very lonely, you know, so do go and visit , or You know, this exhibit ends tomorrow , or You know that black dog our neighbors had? She was run over a year ago . This phrase is also quite often a conversational filler, equivalent to âumâ and occasionally repeated over and over (as in It's a fine day for, you know, the beach, and, you know, we could leave now ); this usage is more oral than written, and many consider it deplorable. [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
âYou know when people are trying to get out of a building and theyâre getting trampled? Well, these were people getting trampled on their way into a building,â the bandâs vocalist, Jack Grisham, told The Times.
âYou know, they're playing a different game. And the Republicans, unfortunately, are going faster. They're moving too fast for them,â Chakrabarti told Salon in an interview.
âOccasionally, we, the party, nominates people from the farther left in those districts, and they lose, and when we nominate people from the center, they win. It happened in my hometown of Syracuse, where, you know, for two cycles in a row, we nominated somebody who was too far left in the district, and then we nominated John Mannion, and then he won,â Bennett said.
Itâs usually a ballpark, but in an environment like the Saratoga sale, you know that the major players in the sport are there with extremely deep pockets.
But on the other hand, as you well know, there were the likes of Susan B Anthony, and also some people that seem to have been even more genuinely white supremacist, who made the calculation that, you know what, we have principles too but we need to be pragmatic.
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Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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