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To try in every way; miss no chance; do everything possible. — Usually used in the negative.
Compare: [ALL OUT], [BEND HEAVEN AND EARTH], [FINE-TOOTH COMB].
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. leave no stone unturned
[leave no stone unturned] {v. phr.}
To try in every way; miss no chance; do everything possible. — Usually used in the negative.
The police will leave no stone unturned in their search for the bank robbers.
Compare: [ALL OUT], [BEND HEAVEN AND EARTH], [FINE-TOOTH COMB].
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To have no bad feelings about what happened in the past.
Syn.: [LET BYGONES BE BYGONES], [LIVE AND LET LIVE].
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A person who makes things enjoyable or interesting for a group of people.
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1. To take all down in pieces; destroy.
2. To take to pieces or parts.
3. To say bad things about; criticize.
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. tear down
[tear down] {v.}
1. To take all down in pieces; destroy.
The workmen tore down the old house and built a new house in its place.
2. To take to pieces or parts.
The mechanics had to tear down the engine, and fix it, and put it together again.
3. To say bad things about; criticize.
"Why do you always tear people down? Why don't you try to say nice things about them?"
Dorothy doesn't like Sandra, and at the class meeting she tore down every idea Sandra suggested.
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To let the past be forgotten.
Syn.: [FORGIVE AND FORGET].
Compare: [BURY THE HATCHET], [LIVE AND LET LIVE].
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. let bygones be bygones
[let bygones be bygones] {v. phr.}
To let the past be forgotten.
After a long, angry quarrel the two boys agreed to let bygones be bygones and made friends again.
We should let bygones be bygones and try to get along with each other.
Syn.: [FORGIVE AND FORGET].
Compare: [BURY THE HATCHET], [LIVE AND LET LIVE].
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1. The act of saying or writing terrible things about someone or something, usually on behalf of one's boss or organization.
2. A ruthless, wholesale job of editing a script whereby entire paragraphs or pages are omitted.
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. hatchet job
[hatchet job] {n. phr.}, {slang}
1. The act of saying or writing terrible things about someone or something, usually on behalf of one's boss or organization.
When Phil makes speeches against the competition exaggerating their weaknesses, he is doing the hatchet job on behalf of our president.
2. A ruthless, wholesale job of editing a script whereby entire paragraphs or pages are omitted.
Don, my editor, did a hatchet job on my new novel.
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To hide and wait for in order to catch or attack; to lie in wait for.
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. lay for
[lay for] {v.}, {informal}
To hide and wait for in order to catch or attack; to lie in wait for.
The bandits laid for him along the road.
I knew he had the marks for the exam, so I was laying for him outside his office.
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A systematic or periodical dismissal of employees from a factory or a firm.
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General situation; arrangement; plan.
Compare: [LAID OUT].
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A stopover, usually at an airport or in a hotel due to interrupted air travel.
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