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22-letter words containing so

  • through someone's eyes — If someone sees or considers something through your eyes, they consider it in the way that you do, from your point of view.
  • to awaken to something — to become aware of something
  • to draw someone's fire — If you draw fire from someone, you cause them to shoot at you, for example because they think that you are threatening them.
  • to drop someone a line — If you drop someone a line, you write to them.
  • to drown one's sorrows — If you say that someone is drowning their sorrows, you mean that they are drinking alcohol in order to forget something sad or upsetting that has happened to them.
  • to hate someone's guts — If you hate someone's guts, you dislike them very much indeed.
  • to hit someone for six — If someone or something is hit for six or knocked for six, they are very upset or badly affected by an experience or piece of news.
  • to lead someone astray — If you are led astray by someone or something, you behave badly or foolishly because of them.
  • to meet someone's eyes — If something, especially something surprising or impressive, meets your eyes, you see it.
  • to seal someone's fate — If something seals a person's or thing's fate, it makes it certain that they will fail or that something unpleasant will happen to them.
  • to twist someone's arm — If you twist someone's arm, you persuade them to do something.
  • turn someone's stomach — If you say that something turns your stomach or makes your stomach turn, you mean that it is so unpleasant or offensive that it makes you feel sick.
  • unreasonable behaviour — conduct by a spouse sufficient to cause the irretrievable breakdown of a marriage
  • william lloyd garrisonWilliam Lloyd, 1805–79, U.S. leader in the abolition movement.
  • windsor and maidenhead — (since 1917) a member of the present British royal family. Compare Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (def 1).
  • within someone's grasp — If you say that something is within someone's grasp, you mean that it is very likely that they will achieve it.
  • would sooner/'d sooner — If you say that you would sooner do something or you'd sooner do it, you mean that you would prefer to do it.
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