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  • feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
  • featherstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of featherstitch.
  • flannel-mouthed — speaking thickly, as if one's mouth were full of flannel
  • fly-on-the-wall — A fly-on-the-wall documentary is made by filming people as they do the things they normally do, rather than by interviewing them or asking them to talk directly to the camera.
  • for the love of — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
  • for the present — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
  • for the sake of — for the good of
  • for their pains — You say that something was all you got for your pains when you are mentioning the disappointing result of situation into which you put a lot of work or effort.
  • force the issue — to compel decision on some matter
  • founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • from the get-go — If something happens or is true from the get-go, it happens or is true from the beginning of a process or activity.
  • gaia hypothesis — a model of the earth as a self-regulating organism, advanced as an alternative to a mechanistic model.
  • gas thermometer — a device for measuring temperature by observing the change in either pressure or volume of an enclosed gas.
  • gestalt therapy — holistic psychotherapy
  • get it together — to achieve one's full potential, either generally as a person or in a particular field of activity
  • get the best of — to surpass, defeat, or outwit; better
  • get the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • get the feel of — If you get the feel of something, for example a place or a new activity, you become familiar with it.
  • get the hang of — to understand the technique of doing something
  • get the jump on — to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
  • get the message — a communication containing some information, news, advice, request, or the like, sent by messenger, telephone, email, or other means.
  • get the picture — understand
  • get the wind up — to become frightened
  • gift of the gab — ability to speak effortlessly, glibly, or persuasively
  • gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
  • give it the gun — to cause something to start or gain speed
  • give the finger — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
  • give the lie to — a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification. Antonyms: truth.
  • give them heaps — to contend strenuously with an opposing sporting team
  • go by the board — If something goes by the board, it is rejected or ignored, or is no longer possible.
  • go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • go to the block — to be beheaded
  • go to the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • gödel's theorem — either of two theorems published by the mathematician Kurt Gödel in 1931 that prove all mathematical systems are incomplete in that their truth or consistency can only be proved using a system of a higher order
  • godfather offer — a takeover bid pitched so high that the management of the target company is unable to dissuade shareholders from accepting it
  • green's theorem — one of several theorems that connect an integral in n -dimensional space with one in (n − 1)-dimensional space.
  • group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
  • hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
  • half the battle — If you say that something is half the battle, you mean that it is the most important step towards achieving something.
  • hang in (there) — to hold steadfast; persevere
  • have the ear of — to be in a position to influence
  • heather mixture — cloth made from a mixture of different yarns, predominantly grey but with flecks of different colours
  • heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
  • herod the great — ("the Great") 73?–4 b.c, king of Judea 37–4.
  • high on the hog — in a luxurious or costly way
  • hit the buffers — to finish or be stopped, esp unexpectedly
  • hit the ceiling — the overhead interior surface of a room.
  • hit the jackpot — the chief prize or the cumulative stakes in a game or contest, as in bingo, a quiz contest, or a slot machine.
  • holiday clothes — the clothes worn and bought for travelling on holiday, such as swimwear, skiwear, or clothes for hot or cold weather, etc
  • hunt the wumpus — (games, history)   (Or "Wumpus") /wuhm'p*s/ A famous fantasy computer game, created by Gregory Yob in about 1973. Hunt the Wumpus appeared in Creative Computing, Vol 1, No 5, Sep - Oct 1975, where Yob says he had come up with the game two years previously, after seeing the grid-based games Hurkle, Snark and Mugwump at People's Computing Company (PCC). He later delivered Wumpus to PCC who published it in their newsletter. ESR says he saw a version including termites running on the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System in 1972-3. Magnus Olsson, in his 1992-07-07 USENET article <[email protected]>, posted the BASIC source code of what he believed was pretty much the version that was published in 1973 in David Ahl's "101 Basic Computer Games", by Digital Equipment Corporation. The wumpus lived somewhere in a cave with the topology of an dodecahedron's edge/vertex graph (later versions supported other topologies, including an icosahedron and M"obius strip). The player started somewhere at random in the cave with five "crooked arrows"; these could be shot through up to three connected rooms, and would kill the wumpus on a hit (later versions introduced the wounded wumpus, which got very angry). Unfortunately for players, the movement necessary to map the maze was made hazardous not merely by the wumpus (which would eat you if you stepped on him) but also by bottomless pits and colonies of super bats that would pick you up and drop you at a random location (later versions added "anaerobic termites" that ate arrows, bat migrations and earthquakes that randomly changed pit locations). This game appears to have been the first to use a non-random graph-structured map (as opposed to a rectangular grid like the even older Star Trek games). In this respect, as in the dungeon-like setting and its terse, amusing messages, it prefigured ADVENT and Zork and was directly ancestral to both (Zork acknowledged this heritage by including a super-bat colony). There have been many ports including one distributed with SunOS, a freeware one for the Macintosh and a C emulation by ESR.
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