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32-letter words containing a, h, o, r, n, e

  • the courage of one's convictions — the confidence to act in accordance with one's beliefs
  • the game is not worth the candle — If you say that the game is not worth the candle, you mean that something is not worth the trouble or effort needed to achieve or obtain it.
  • throw someone in at the deep end — to put someone into a new situation, job, etc, without preparation or introduction
  • to go to great lengths to do sth — if you say that someone goes to great lengths to achieve something, you mean that they go to a lot of trouble in order to achieve it
  • to have by the short and curlies — to have completely in one's power
  • to nail your colours to the mast — If someone nails their colours to the mast, they say what they really think about something.
  • to vanish from the radar screens — to go missing; to no longer be visible or able to be detected by anyone
  • turn/beat swords into plowshares — If you say that swords have been turned into plowshares or beaten into plowshares, you mean that a state of conflict between two or more groups of people has ended and a period of peace has begun.
  • virtual sequential access method — Virtual Storage Access Method
  • wash one's dirty linen in public — fabric woven from flax yarns.
  • wear one's heart on one's sleeve — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • with your tail between your legs — If you say that you have your tail between your legs, you are emphasizing that you feel defeated and ashamed.
  • yet another scheme object system — (language)   (YASOS) A system for object-oriented programming in Scheme. E-mail: Ken Dickey <[email protected]>
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