"Death and taxes" is a phrase commonly referencing a famous quotation written by American statesman Benjamin Franklin: Our new Constitution is now established...
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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...
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Ace of spades (category Cultural aspects of death)
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...
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Alaska (redirect from Alaska Department of Revenue – Tax Division)
fish taxes, hotel, motel, and bed-and-breakfast 'bed' taxes, severance taxes, liquor and tobacco taxes, gaming (pull tabs) taxes, tire taxes and fuel...
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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...
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Alfonso López Michelsen (category 2007 deaths)
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...
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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...
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Guru Arjan (redirect from Death of Guru Arjan)
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...
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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...
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Mencius (category 289 BC deaths)
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...
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Kafir (category Islam and other religions)
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...
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Chinaman's chance (category American English idioms)
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...
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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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displaying short descriptions of redirect targets "Tar and Feather. The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Houghton Mifflin Company"....
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Mullah Omar (category 2013 deaths)
Retrieved 8 July 2020 – via ResearchGate. Ghiabi, Maziyar (2019). "Crisis as an Idiom for Reforms". Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic...
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United States (redirect from US and A)
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...
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Pieter Brueghel the Younger (category 1638 deaths)
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...
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Lodi dynasty (category States and territories established in 1451)
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...
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Village (section Malaysia and Singapore)
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...
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Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (category 1519 deaths)
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...
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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...
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Eunuch (section Asia and Africa)
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...
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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...
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Don Quixote (section Style and interpretations)
phrase "the pot calling the kettle black" and the adjective "quixotic." Tilting at windmills is an English idiom that means "attacking imaginary enemies"...
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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...
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of Idiom Design and Consulting. While with Idiom Design and Consulting, she was Design Manager for developing the 2010 Commonwealth Games Image and Look...
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List of common misconceptions (redirect from Misconceptions and disputed facts)
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...
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Taiwan (category Countries and territories where Chinese is an official language)
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...
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Turkish. Despite being fluent in English, she sometimes misinterprets idioms and phrases; this is a running joke within the series. Throughout the series...
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