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21-letter words containing a, r, k, s, h

  • a rap on the knuckles — If someone in authority gives you a rap on the knuckles, they criticize you or blame you for doing something they think is wrong.
  • aleksandr-nikolaevichAlexander (Aleksandr Nikolaevich) 1899–1977, Russian pianist and composer, in the U.S.
  • all hell breaks loose — If you say that all hell breaks loose, you are emphasizing that a lot of arguing or fighting suddenly starts.
  • banach-tarski paradox — (mathematics)   It is possible to cut a solid ball into finitely many pieces (actually about half a dozen), and then put the pieces together again to get two solid balls, each the same size as the original. This paradox is a consequence of the Axiom of Choice.
  • break someone's heart — an act or instance of breaking; disruption or separation of parts; fracture; rupture: There was a break in the window.
  • chequebook journalism — Chequebook journalism is the practice of paying people large sums of money for information about crimes or famous people in order to get material for newspaper articles.
  • chink in one's armour — a small but fatal weakness
  • christmas tree packet — (networking)   (Or kamikaze packet) A packet with every single option set for whatever protocol is in use. The term doubtless derives from a fanciful image of each little option bit being represented by a different-coloured light bulb, all turned on. 10 points for correctly being able to process a "Kamikaze" packet (AKA nastygram, Christmas tree packet, lamp test segment, et al.). That is, correctly handle a segment with the maximum combination of features at once (e.g. a SYN URG PUSH FIN segment with options and data). Compare: Chernobyl packet.
  • data parallel haskell — (language, parallel)   Adds Parallel Objects with arbitrary Dimension (PODs) and POD comprehensions to Haskell.
  • get one's breath back — When you get your breath back after doing something energetic, you start breathing normally again.
  • have the inside track — If you say that someone has the inside track, you mean that they have an advantage, for example special knowledge about something.
  • insulin shock therapy — a former treatment for mental illness, especially schizophrenia, employing insulin-induced hypoglycemia as a method for producing convulsive seizures.
  • korsakoff's psychosis — a mental illness involving severe confusion and inability to retain recent memories, usually caused by alcoholism
  • lady murasaki shikibuLady, 978?–1031? Japanese poet and novelist.
  • like a shag on a rock — abandoned and alone
  • make yourself at home — settle in
  • paper over the cracks — conceal flaws or problems
  • ploughman's spikenard — a European plant, Inula conyza, with tubular yellowish flower heads surrounded by purple bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • protestant work ethic — work ethic.
  • rap over the knuckles — to reprimand
  • s-k reduction machine — An abstract machine defined by Professor David Turner to evaluate combinator expressions represented as binary graphs. Named after the two basic combinators, S and K.
  • school of hard knocks — the experience gained from living, especially from disappointment and hard work, regarded as a means of education: The only school he ever attended was the school of hard knocks.
  • share and share alike — with each having an equal share
  • stick in one's throat — to be difficult, or against one's conscience, for one to accept, utter, or believe
  • take sb at their word — If you take someone at their word, you believe what they say, when they did not really mean it or when they meant something slightly different.
  • take sb/sth seriously — If you take someone or something seriously, you believe that they are important and deserve attention.
  • tartarian honeysuckle — an Asian honeysuckle, Lonicera tatarica, having fragrant, white to pink flowers.
  • the corncracker state — a nickname for the state of Kentucky
  • the fast track to sth — the quickest or most direct route or system
  • the flickertail state — a name for the state of North Dakota
  • to be hard luck on sb — to be unfortunate or unlucky for someone
  • to sink without trace — If you say that someone or something sinks without trace or sinks without a trace, you mean that they stop existing or stop being successful very suddenly and completely.
  • whistling in the dark — If you say that someone is whistling in the dark, you mean that they are trying to remain brave and convince themselves that the situation is not as bad as it seems.

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