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  • the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
  • the capitoline — the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome. The temple of Jupiter was on the southern summit and the ancient citadel on the northern summit
  • the charioteer — the constellation Auriga
  • the chosen few — a small group who are treated better than other people
  • the cordeliers — a political club founded in 1790 and meeting at an old Cordelier convent in Paris
  • the cretaceous — the Cretaceous period or rock system
  • the cryptozoic — the Cryptozoic era
  • the dead heart — the remote interior of Australia
  • the deerhunter — a film (1978) about the Vietnam War, directed by Michael Cimino and starring Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken
  • the depression — the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
  • the done thing — If you say that something is the done thing, you mean it is the most socially acceptable way to behave.
  • the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
  • the federalist — a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption
  • the federation — the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901
  • the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
  • the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
  • the footlights — the theater, or acting as a profession
  • the free world — the non-Communist countries collectively, esp those that are actively anti-Communist
  • the full monty — something in its entirety
  • the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
  • the gender gap — the difference in the attitudes, behaviour, abilities, etc, of men and women, or boys and girls
  • the gentle sex — the female sex; women
  • the great glen — a fault valley across the whole of Scotland, extending southwest from the Moray Firth in the east to Loch Linnhe and containing Loch Ness and Loch Lochy
  • the great trek — the migration of Boer farmers with their slaves and African servants from the Cape Colony to the north and east from about 1836 to 1845 to escape British authority
  • the grenadines — a chain of about 600 islets in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands, extending for about 100 km (60 miles) between St Vincent and Grenada and divided administratively between the two states. Largest island: Carriacou
  • the guillotine — a device for beheading persons, consisting of a weighted blade set between two upright posts
  • the heretofore — the past
  • the hexaemeron — the six-day period of the Creation
  • the hispanidad — the common values and cultural attitudes shared between and linking Spain and the other Spanish-speaking countries of the world
  • the home front — the civilian population
  • the honourable — a title of respect placed before a name: employed before the names of various officials in the English-speaking world, as a courtesy title in Britain for the children of viscounts and barons and the younger sons of earls, and in Parliament by one member speaking of another
  • the human race — mankind
  • the humanities — the study of literature, philosophy, and the arts
  • the ice blacks — the international ice hockey team of New Zealand
  • the inevitable — something that is unavoidable
  • the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
  • the job market — the people who are looking for work and the jobs available for them to do
  • the joe blakes — the DT's
  • the july sales — a traditional retail event occurring in the month of July, when shops sell things at less than their normal price
  • the kama sutra — an ancient Hindu text on erotic pleasure and other topics
  • the kiwi ferns — the women's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
  • the last laugh — the final success in an argument, situation, etc, after previous defeat
  • the last straw — If an event is the last straw or the straw that broke the camel's back, it is the latest in a series of unpleasant or undesirable events, and makes you feel that you cannot tolerate a situation any longer.
  • the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
  • the lesser dog — the constellation Canis Minor
  • the long march — a journey of about 10 000 km (6000 miles) undertaken (1934–35) by some 100 000 Chinese Communists when they were forced out of their base in Kiangsi in SE China. They made their way to Shensi in NW China; only about 8000 survived the rigours of the journey
  • the loony left — the extreme left
  • the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the mabinogion — a collection of Welsh tales based on old Celtic legends and mythology in which magic and the supernatural play a large part
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