Gd22 Flashcards
They’ll cast you out, like a leper
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I’m just ahead of the curve
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An increase in imports from overseas, and automation of the weaving processes, mean that Selectus has had to keep ahead of the curve to stay in business
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Your friend the district attorney, or his blushing bride-to-be
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You spat I n the faces of Gotham’s criminals
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The doctor says you’re in agonizing pain, but that you won’t accept medication
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Accept skin grafts
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A truckload of soldiers will be blowing up
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I gotta take a leak
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To blow you all sky-high
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Snipers take them out, smash the windows, a team rappels in
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Team moves in by the stairwells
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You need an ace in the hole
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Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded
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He is a silent guardian, a watchful protector, a dark knight
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Another steal and dunk
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Meat pies would be dished up with sauce squeezed by the lady behind the counter and full strength beers would be served in bottles
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There were still some remains of her make-up from the day before, smudged mascara underneath her eyes, a thin line of eyeliner all making her look exhausted and almost haggard
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That’s why in dictatorships or autocratic regimes those in power move quickly to suppress a free press
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She paid the bill without batting an eyelid
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If someone gives in to greed, he will only becomes greedier
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He began to put on airs and think he could boss us around
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Alice’s sharp wit and blunt pronouncements could be intimidating, but if you didn’t put on airs and weren’t a fool, she was fiercely loyal and endlessly forgiving
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He and my mother fought often, either when his cruelty surfaced or when his behaviour failed to meet her standards of propriety
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Gulliver’s own sailors declare a mutiny on his power and tie him up, conspiring against him, making him their prisoner
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I bet she knows her husband is an incorrigible flirt who seems to have sex on the brain all the time
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Aren’t you going to be happy unless you’re rubbing my nose in the fact I got caught
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He has won the argument, but there is no point in rubbing his opponent’s nose in it
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She has made amends
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Clergy members found guilty of such a charge can be admonished, removed from office or, in extreme cases, be deposed from holy orders
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Have one foot in the grave
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I mean, sure, you get disappointed because you go out there putting your best foot forward
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Like the king’s courtiers, the princesses had to leave a room walking backward in the king’s presence
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Stage a rowdy protest
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These are violent criminals, essential cogs in the organized-crime machine
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Peeing into Mason jars
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He goes by his gut
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Look, you wouldn’t beat up a woman any more than l would beat up a cripple
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Why were you dusting for prints
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We should send the police before she fences the pearls
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You two should exchange notes over coffee
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So now you’re trying to set me up with a jewel thief
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He aged out. We don’t have the resources to keep boys on after 16
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We can’t have loose ends
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Someone get this hothead out of here
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The water runs to any one of the outflows
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When l pulled him out, he was babbling about an underground army
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The residual concussive damage to your brain tissue
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A stiff can barely climb out of his sports car
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Even before you became a recluse, you never came to these things
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Ellen Page came out as gay in remarks at a conference
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Ellen Page: why did this petite beauty dress like massive men
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Mind if I cut in
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That’s a brazen costume for a cat burglar
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You’re in deep with the wrong people
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Until now the affairs of the tribe have been administered by regents
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Once you’ve done what you had to, they never let you do what you want to
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Parl drank six bottles of beer. He must have a hollow leg
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Walter’s got a hot hand tonight. He’s won four games of poker
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She was petite and vivacious
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A set of feet came quickly down the staircase, letting into view the figure of a petite woman in a loose white dress
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She was petite with delicate features and hands that seemed to be ageless
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What brings you out of cryo-sleep
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Keep them from falling into the wrong hands
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l’m all ears
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The church excommunicated people who said that the earth revolved around the sun
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A Puritan New England congregation even excommunicated a man who neglected the sexual aspect of his relationship with his wife
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l didn’t realize l was known for trifling with criminals
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Like a rat in a trap
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Sound a little too good to be true
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lt was a gangland myth
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Those weren’t street thugs. They were trained killers
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l see from the television coverage that you got your taste for wanton destruction back
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One man’s tool is another man’s weapon
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You led a bloated police force on a merry chase
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