• China's final warning (category Russian-language idioms)
    romanized: posledneye kitayskoye preduprezhdeniye) is a Russian ironic idiom originating from the Soviet Union that refers to a warning that carries...
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    gives birth to a mouse Christine Ammer, The American Heritage dictionary of idioms, p. 647, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997 ISBN 0-395-72774-X, 9780395727744...
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    Kvass (category Articles containing Estonian-language text)
    popular drink in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, as well as some parts of Finland, Sweden, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan...
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    Raining cats and dogs (category Articles containing Estonian-language text)
    languages have equally bizarre expressions for heavy rain. English-language idioms Rain of animals Anatoly Liberman (21 March 2007). "Raining Cats and Dogs"...
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  • Top-40 Uge 34, 2024". Hitlisten. Retrieved August 28, 2024. "Top Radio Hits Estonia Weekly Chart: Sep 12, 2024". TopHit. Retrieved September 13, 2024. "Billie...
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    51 (3–4): 251–265. doi:10.1515/fabl.2010.024. S2CID 161511346. "https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/enough+to+make+a+cat+laugh">enough to make a cat laugh...
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  • association for sport shooting Demobilised Soldiers' Union, a political party in Estonia Direct Source Unit, a sub-division of UK police forces dedicated to handling...
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    has been documented to date. Ayto, John (2020). The Oxford dictionary of idioms (Fourth ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-188075-9. OCLC 1178881627...
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    In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity...
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    refurbished some rooms in the Winter Palace and applied the Greek Revival idioms to the imperial palace in Oreanda, Crimea (1842–1852; burnt down in 1882)...
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  • constantia by virtue and consistency National motto of Malta. Also motto of the Estonian Internal Security Service. virtute et industria by virtue and industry...
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    Kissel (category Articles containing Estonian-language text)
    kissel is made less gel-like, it can be drunk. This is common in Belarus, Estonia, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. In Finland, it is called kiisseli. "Kissel"...
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  • (with diacritics, apart from ى and assimilation of -ال) Kurdish Maltese Estonian (apart from palatalization or long and "over-long" phoneme length distinction)...
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    16 May 1996. In it, the ethnically Estonian population of Estonia would be under the jurisdiction of the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church, while the...
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    (Sweden), murchunga/binayo (Nepal), Ozark harp (United States), parmupill (Estonia), trump (Scotland), berimbau de boca (Portuguese), and vargan (Russia)...
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    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 "apparently...
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    Krasny Oktyabr confectionery factory in Moscow. In Estonia, linnupiim (also "bird's milk" in Estonian) is the brand name of a similar candy made by the...
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  • Disco Elysium (category Video games developed in Estonia)
    Planescape: Torment, the game was written and designed by a team led by Estonian novelist Robert Kurvitz and features an art style based on oil painting...
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  • hardly non-derisive Skopianoi. "Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms". Australian National Dictionary Centre. Australian National University...
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    Barn (section Barn idioms)
    end of Suitsu hiking trail at the Matsalu National Park in Pärnu County, Estonia. A barn (ovin) in the museum-estate of Surikov. Krasnoyarsk, Russia. A...
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    handed down from generation to generation". To distinguish proverbs from idioms, cliches, etc., Norrick created a table of distinctive features, an abstract...
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    Edgar de Wahl (category Linguists from Estonia)
    a Baltic German mathematics and physics teacher who lived in Tallinn, Estonia. He also used the pseudonym Julian Prorók, and is best known as the creator...
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  • Melanie Rauk (category Linguists from Estonia)
    Melanie Rauk (July 25, 1905 – January 25, 1978) was an Estonian teacher and translator. Melanie Rauk's father, Ivan (Juhan, Johan) Rauk (1880–?), was a...
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    Wildfires have a place in many cultures. "To spread like wildfire" is a common idiom in English, meaning something that "quickly affects or becomes known by...
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    400th Missile Squadron (crossed missiles), and continues in use with the Estonian Kuperjanov Battalion. In Christian theology, black was the color of the...
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  • Gowen is". The Guardian. "Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms". Australian National University. Retrieved 22 March 2015. [Who let the...
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    Julius Genss (category Estonian art critics)
    11 in Dorpat, Estonian Governorate of the Russian Empire; died 3 February 1957, in Tallinn as Julius Gens, Estonian SSR) was an Estonian bibliophile, art...
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    Q
    It is not considered to be part of the Cornish (Standard Written Form), Estonian, Icelandic, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Scottish...
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  • too much repetition, unexceptional prose, and characters who use the same idioms (and have sex in exactly the same manner) no matter their ethnicity, social...
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