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Go to pieces
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deteriorate (e.g. one's health or state of mind); lose one's self-control. |
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Go to the dogs
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(informal) to decline morally and/or spiritually: to deteriorate. (It's often used of a company, organization, country, etc that becomes less powerful, efficient, etc than before). |
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Go with/float with/against the tide/current
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take the easier path, do what the majority is doing. |
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Go/be/ through the mill
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to go through hard times. |
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God forbid!
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may God prevent it from ever happening. (A phrase expressing the desire that God would forbid the situation that the speaker has just mentioned from ever happening). |
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God will help those who help themselves
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people use it to say that one must put in his own efforts and try, in order to accomplish something). (It was first written by Jean de La Fontaine, a French poet and writer of fables in the seventeenth century. When a political society was formed in 1824 with the purpose of encouraging the middle classes to resist the government, “Aide-toi et le Ciel t'aidera” was adopted as its slogan.) |
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Goes in the wheel for a Mother
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a mother experiences the good and the bad with her children |
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Golden age (of something)
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the period during which something is best, happiest, precious or most prosperous. |
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Golden Gloves
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An amateur boxing tournament in which each
weight division winner received a small golden
glove as an award. |
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Golden rule
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the precept that one should behave toward others
as he would want them to behave toward him. See
Matthew 7:12. |
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Good riddance!
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said to show relief when one gets rid of an
unpleasant person or something unwanted, or
when one completes a tiresome job of work etc. |
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Goods
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fabric for sewing clothing. |
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Goose-neck hoe
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a garden tool with a curved handle. |
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Got up on the wrong side of the bed
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To be irritable, be bad-tempered or in a bad mood all day. |
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Graceful
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delicate; pleasant in movement. |
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Grass roots
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basic fundamentals of belief; originating among
or carried on by the common people. |
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Grin and bear it
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suffer something unpleasant with optimism,
patience, because one cannot change it. |
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Gripe
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Groped
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reached out; tried to find the way |
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Gross
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Great: thick; much, abundant. |
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Growing pains
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Pains caused by changes in children's bodies as they grow. |
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Troubles when something new is beginning or
growing. |
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Guinea pig
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someone or something that is used in an experiment. |
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Gum up
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To cause not to work, or ruin by sealing up;
spoil; make something go wrong. |
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Gun Barrel straight
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Completely honest and unmoveable concerning what is true and right. |
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