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  • grandfather's clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
  • grandmother's clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
  • greenstick fracture — an incomplete fracture of a long bone, in which one side is broken and the other side is still intact.
  • have a weakness for — be fond of
  • horseshoe whipsnake — a long slender fast-moving nonvenomous snake, Coluber hippocrepis, of Eurasia
  • identification mark — barcode or serial number
  • index-tracking fund — an investment fund that is administered so that its value changes in line with a given share index
  • inglenook fireplace — a large fireplace with a space on either side
  • intervertebral disk — the plate of fibrocartilage between the bodies of adjacent vertebrae.
  • john maynard keynes — John Maynard, 1st Baron, 1883–1946, English economist and writer.
  • kansas-nebraska act — the act of Congress in 1854 annulling the Missouri Compromise, providing for the organization of the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and permitting these territories self-determination on the question of slavery.
  • keep an eye out for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • keep up appearances — If you keep up appearances, you try to behave and dress in a way that people expect of you, even if you can no longer afford it.
  • kellogg-briand pact — a treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy and urging peaceful means for the settlement of international disputes, originally signed in 1928 by 15 nations, later joined by 49 others.
  • keyboard instrument — any musical instrument that is played using a keyboard
  • king charles's head — a fixed idea; personal obsession
  • king's remembrancer — (in Great Britain) a judiciary official who collects debts owed to the king.
  • kingdom of lorraine — an early medieval kingdom on the Meuse, Moselle, and Rhine rivers: later a duchy
  • knights hospitalers — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
  • knock-out agreement — an agreement between bidders at an auction or sale not to bid against each other
  • know better than to — not to be so stupid as to
  • lean over backwards — to make a special effort, esp in order to please
  • like a dog's dinner — dressed smartly or ostentatiously
  • make oneself scarce — insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war.
  • market segmentation — the division of a market into identifiable groups, esp to improve the effectiveness of a marketing strategy
  • nasty piece of work — malicious person
  • natural killer cell — a small killer cell that destroys virus-infected cells or tumor cells without activation by an immune system cell or antibody.
  • network termination — (NT, NT1) A device connecting the customer's data or telephone equipment to the local ISDN exchange carrier's line. The NT device provides a connection for terminal equipment (TE) and terminal adaptor (TA) equipment to the local loop.
  • niagara-on-the-lake — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Niagara River, on the border between Canada and New York.
  • norfolk island pine — a coniferous evergreen tree, Araucaria heterophylla (or A. excelsa), having whorled branches and needlelike foliage, widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • north new hyde park — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • not worth a cracker — worthless; useless
  • oak-leaved geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium quercifolium, of southern Africa, having oaklike leaves with purple veins and sparse clusters of purple flowers with darker markings.
  • on the baker's list — in good health
  • parachute spinnaker — a very large spinnaker used on a racing yacht.
  • parkinson's disease — a common neurologic disease believed to be caused by deterioration of the brain cells that produce dopamine, occurring primarily after the age of 60, characterized by tremors, especially of the fingers and hands, muscle rigidity, shuffling gait, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression.
  • particle kinematics — Particle kinematics is the study of the movement of particles, without considering the forces that cause this movement.
  • peak envelope power — (communications)   (PEP) The maximum power output by a radio transmitter over one complete RF cycle at any modulation.
  • pen-and-ink drawing — a drawing that is done using a pen rather than a pencil
  • pocket-handkerchief — handkerchief (def 1).
  • portuguese-speaking — being a speaker of Portuguese; having Portuguese as the national language
  • prairie rattlesnake — a rattlesnake, Crotalus viridis viridis, of the prairies of western North America.
  • presentation skills — the set of techniques and skills required successfully to present oral information to others
  • prick up one's ears — a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
  • puncture repair kit — set of tools for patching a bicycle tyre
  • quick-change artist — a person adept at changing from one thing to another, as an entertainer who changes costumes quickly during a performance.
  • raise one's hackles — one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers.
  • rap on the knuckles — a mild reprimand or light sentence
  • rhodesian ridgeback — a large short-haired breed of dog characterized by a ridge of hair growing along the back in the opposite direction to the rest of the coat. It was originally a hunting dog from South Africa
  • saint luke's summer — a period of unusually warm weather in the autumn
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