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- cloth of gold — cloth woven from silk threads interspersed with gold
- cloth-of-gold — a garden plant, Crocus augustifolius, of the iris family, native to the Crimean mountains, having orange-red flowers.
- cloven-hoofed — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- coffee filter — a paper filter used when making coffee
- coffee klatch — A coffee klatch is a social event at which coffee is served.
- coffin corner — any of the corners of a football field formed by a goal line and side line: punts are sometimes directed to a coffin corner so that the ball will go out of bounds near the opponent's goal line
- coffin dodger — an old person
- coming of age — When something reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people, you can refer to this as its coming of age.
- counteroffers — Plural form of counteroffer.
- counterproofs — Plural form of counterproof.
- crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
- crack of doom — doomsday; the end of the world; the Day of Judgment
- crock of shit — a quantity or source of lies or nonsense
- cuckooflowers — Plural form of cuckooflower.
- cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
- cut-off point — the limit at which something is no longer applicable
- cut-off valve — a valve that terminates the flow of fluid in a system
- date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
- day of infamy — December 7, 1941, on which Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II: so referred to by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his speech to Congress the next day, asking for a declaration of war on Japan.
- days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
- dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
- debt of honor — a gambling debt: not legally enforceable
- deed of trust — a written instrument legally conveying property to a trustee, such as a bank, often for the purpose of securing a mortgage or promissory note.
- dehydrofreeze — to subject (food) to partial dehydration and quick-freezing.
- divine office — office (def 12c).
- drownproofing — a survival technique, for swimmers or nonswimmers, in which the body is allowed to float vertically in the water, with the head submerged, the lungs filled with air, and the arms and legs relaxed, the head being raised to breathe every ten seconds or so.
- electroformed — Produced, or modified by electroforming.
- end of medium — (character) (EM) ASCII character 25.
- facts of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
- feast of lots — Purim.
- ferrosoferric — containing both a ferrous compound and a ferric compound
- field of fire — the area covered by a weapon or group of weapons firing from a given position.
- field of view — field (def 13).
- field officer — an officer holding a field grade.
- figure of fun — If you describe someone as a figure of fun, you mean that people think they are ridiculous.
- filter coffee — coffee made by filtering hot water through ground coffee
- first officer — first mate.
- fisher of men — an evangelist
- flag of truce — a white flag displayed as an invitation to the enemy to confer, or carried as a sign of peaceful intention by one sent to deal with the enemy.
- flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
- floating roof — A floating roof is an internal roof of a fuel storage tank.
- for a kickoff — the beginning of something
- for values of — (jargon) A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).
- form of words — the type of words and phrases used
- foundry proof — a proof pulled for a final checking before printing plates are made.
- frame of mind — mental state
- free software — (software) Software that everyone is free to copy, redistribute and modify. That implies free software must be available as source code, hence "free open source software" - "FOSS". It is usually also free of charge, though anyone can sell free software so long as they don't impose any new restrictions on its redistribution or use. The widespread acceptance of this definition and free software itself owes a great deal to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. There are many other kinds of "free software" in the sense of "free of charge". See "-ware".
- full of beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
- get a load of — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.