"Death and taxes" is a phrase commonly referencing a famous quotation written by American statesman Benjamin Franklin: Our new Constitution is now established...

Death and Taxes may refer to: Death and taxes (idiom), a reference to a quotation by Benjamin Franklin Death and Taxes, a 1931 poetry collection by Dorothy...

confiscation and taxes were introduced to pay for the Swedish War of Liberation that had brought Gustav Vasa to power). In 1543 the uprising was defeated, and Nils...

people who are asexual and aromantic. People who are asexual, but not aromantic, use the ace of hearts as a symbol. Various idioms involving the ace of...

fish taxes, hotel, motel, and bed-and-breakfast 'bed' taxes, severance taxes, liquor and tobacco taxes, gaming (pull tabs) taxes, tire taxes and fuel...

of taxes on monks and introduction of movement controls. In Iraq, many peasants who had fallen behind with their tax payments converted to Islam and abandoned...

politician and lawyer who served as the 24th President of Colombia from 1974 to 1978. He was nicknamed "El Pollo" (The Chicken), a popular Colombian idiom for...

quick, rough idea of a business or product. In British English, a similar idiom is "back of a fag packet". In the natural sciences, back-of-the-envelope...

qashqa in the idiom of the Hindus and which they consider lucky. When this was reported to me, I realized how perfectly false he was and ordered him brought...

negative side, imperial taxes imposed a burden on commoner households, who had to increase their work to pay their share of taxes. Nobles, on the other...

she felt was suitable for the child's upbringing. As an expression, the idiom refers to the importance of finding the proper environment for raising children...

London, p. 273 Gaborieau, Marc (June 1985). "From Al-Beruni to Jinnah: Idiom, Ritual and Ideology of the Hindu-Muslim Confrontation in South Asia". Anthropology...

Chinaman's chance is an American idiom which means that a person has little or no chance at success, synonymous with similar idioms of improbability such as a...

While the word chink also refers to a crack or fissure and chink in the armor is an idiom and common sports cliché, referring to a vulnerability, the...

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Retrieved 8 July 2020 – via ResearchGate. Ghiabi, Maziyar (2019). "Crisis as an Idiom for Reforms". Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic...

due to the development of rock and roll. Elements from folk idioms such as the blues and old-time music were adopted and transformed into popular genres...

Younger created original works largely in the idiom of his father which are energetic, bold and bright and adapted to the 17th-century style. One of the...

an early form of today's Hindi. Persian too was in many ways an elite idiom in its Indian embodiment. Despite pervading much of everyday language in...

people) and in dialects; the Slovene word vas is used all over Slovenia. In Russia and Bulgaria, the word ves is archaic, but remains in idioms and locality...

12 January 1519) was King of the Romans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death in 1519. He was never crowned by the Pope, as the journey...

the meaning of the similar English idiom turn of the century and also makes reference to the closing of one era and onset of another. flambé a cooking...

reflects well-established idioms in Ancient Greek, as shown by entries for transl. grc – transl. noos, eunoos and ekhein in Liddell and Scott's Greek-English...

Wordsworth, has not been Anglicised, and retains North American spellings and idioms. The book was listed in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century. Also, when...

phrase "the pot calling the kettle black" and the adjective "quixotic." Tilting at windmills is an English idiom that means "attacking imaginary enemies"...

chosen held that Moon and Entwistle had suggested that a supergroup with Page and Beck would go down like a "lead balloon", an idiom for being very unsuccessful...

of Idiom Design and Consulting. While with Idiom Design and Consulting, she was Design Manager for developing the 2010 Commonwealth Games Image and Look...

simply meant "foreigner", and is probably a corruption of the Spanish word griego for "Greek" (along the lines of the idiom "It's Greek to me"). Irregardless...

the repeated commotions described by this idiom occurred primarily during the 30-year period between 1820 and 1850.]. Ye 2019, p. 56-57. Ye 2019, p. 58-61...

Turkish. Despite being fluent in English, she sometimes misinterprets idioms and phrases; this is a running joke within the series. Throughout the series...