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"There is no such thing as wasted love or wasted time, because we learn so much about ourselves through loving and... it takes time to realize this" (c)

A blot on the landscape - If you describe a building or some other structure as a blot on the landscape, you mean that it is very ugly and spoils a place which would otherwise be very attractive.

Example:
The power station is both a blot on the landscape and smear on the environment.

Chew the fat - If you chew the fat with someone, you chat with them in an informal and friendly way about things that interest you.

Example:
We'd been lounging around, chewing the fat for a couple of hours.

Sling your hook - If someone tells you to sling your hook, they are telling you to go away.
This expression is used in British English.

Example:
I've always said that there's no point in keeping unsettled players at a football club. Spurs are entering a new era and if Ruddock doesn't want to be a part of it then he should sling his hook.

Repair is slightly more formal than fix or mend. You can repair anything that is broken or damaged, or has a hole in it
• He repairs old furniture
• It cost too much to get the car repaired.
• The roof needs repairing in a few places.
In British English, fix and mend have the same meaning, but people more often use fix to talk about repairing a machine, vehicle etc and mend to talk about repairing holes in clothes, roads, roofs, and fences.
In American English, mend is usually only used to talk about repairing things with holes in them, especially clothes and shoes.

Put the cart before the horse - if you criticize someone for putting the cart before the horse, you think that they are making a mistake by doing things in the wrong order.

Example:

Creating large numbers of schools before improving school management is putting the cart before the horse.

"Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up." (c) unknown

"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free." (c) Charles Evans Hughes

"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly." (c) Sam Keen

On the dot - If you do something on the dot, you do it punctually or at exactly the time you are supposed to.

Example:

1) At nine o'clock on the dot, they have breakfast. 2) He arrived right on the dot, as Brian expected.

Get the hump - If you get the hump, you get annoyed or irritated by something.
This expression is used in British English.

Example:

Dad used to coach me in the back garden when I was about 10 or 11 - but he tried to drum too much into me and I used to get the hump with him.

Hit a home run - If someone hits a home run, they do something that is very successful.
This expression is used in American English.

Example:

Bartlett Giamatti, Professor of English at Yale, hits a home run here with his memoir of encounters with W.H.Auden over many years.

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