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26-letter words containing e, d, g, h, i

  • take something for granted — If you take something for granted, you believe that it is true or accept it as normal without thinking about it.
  • take steps to do something — to undertake measures with a view to the attainment of some end
  • three-dimensional printing — the creation of solid objects by building up multiple layers, each layer corresponding to a plan held in a digital file
  • to be on the receiving end — If you are on the receiving end or at the receiving end of something unpleasant, you are the person that it happens to.
  • to catch hold of something — Hold is used in expressions such as grab hold of, catch hold of, and get hold of, to indicate that you close your hand tightly around something, for example to stop something moving or falling.
  • to come to a grinding halt — If you say that something comes to a grinding halt, you are emphasizing that it stops very suddenly, especially before it was meant to.
  • to get your house in order — If someone gets their house in order, puts their house in order, or sets their house in order, they arrange their affairs and solve their problems.
  • to hold something in check — If something or someone is held in check or is kept in check, they are controlled and prevented from becoming too great or powerful.
  • to look on the bright side — If you look on the bright side, you try to be cheerful about a bad situation by thinking of some advantages that could result from it, or thinking that it is not as bad as it could have been.
  • to set the record straight — If you set the record straight or put the record straight, you show that something which has been regarded as true is in fact not true.
  • to shed light on something — To shed light on, throw light on, or cast light on something means to make it easier to understand, because more information is known about it.
  • to sign on the dotted line — If you sign on the dotted line, you formally agree to something by signing an official document.
  • turn something on its head — to treat or present something in a completely new and different way
  • walther von der vogelweide — c1170–c1230, German minnesinger and poet.
  • what someone is driving at — If you ask someone what they are driving at, you are asking what they are trying to say or what they are saying indirectly.
  • worth one's weight in gold — extremely helpful, kind, etc
  • yellow-crowned night heron — any of several thick-billed, crepuscular or nocturnal herons of the genus Nycticorax and related genera, as N. nycticorax (black-crowned night heron) of the Old and New Worlds, and Nyctanassa violacea (yellow-crowned night heron) of America.
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