10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LICK ONE'S LIPS»
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Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A ...
(3.4a) gom-dž-y-ny leim-ahta-a, syt-t-y-ä 'to burst into flames' (3.4b) gom-dž-y-t-y-
ny puha-lta-apalamaan 'to set fire to' (3.5a) ńul-y-ny nuol-la 'to lick; to lick one's
lips' (3.5b) ńul-y-št-y-ny nuol-ais-ta, lip-ais-ta 'to lick, to lick one's lips; to take a ...
Pirkko Suihkonen, Bernard Comrie, Valery Solovyev, 2012
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Idiomatic Expressions with English Grammar' 99 Ed.
... IN MASS — LEVY WAR — LICK AND A PROMISE — LICK INTO SHAPE —
LICK ONE'S BOOTS — LICK ONE'S CHOPS — LICK ONE'S LIPS — LICK THE
DUST — LICK YOUR WOUNDS — LICKETY-SPLIT — LIE ALONG — LIE
AROUND ...
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Latvian-English Dictionary
(of a disease, with ar) catch; allow to be infected; 2. become covered with aplaistīt
vt water aplaistīties vr pour water on oneself aplaišana nf infection aplaizīt vt lick;
slicken aplaizīties vr lick one's lips, (of animals) lick one's nose; (fig.) lick one's ...
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The Nonverbal Shift in Early Modern English Conversation
lick one's lips [affect display] 11., 1. b. An action indicating keen relish or
delighted anticipation of some dainty morsel. lift (up) the hand(s), (occas. one's
arm) [quasi-gesture] 11., 5. b. In hostility against (a person). lift up the hand(s) [
emblem] 11.
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Chambers concise dictionary
[Anglo-Saxon liccian ] • a lick and a promise colloq a short and not very thorough
wash, lick into shape colloq to make more efficient or satisfactory, lick one's lips
or chops colloq to look forward to something with relish, lick one's wounds to ...
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A Fulfulde-English Dictionary:
... grab, snatch, gaasotooѐo, waasotooьe, such a one, waaso, snatching,
grabbling. waasa‚ v.t. and waasita, chew one's food, chew the cud, waasre,
gaase, the cud, waasere, gaasite, id., waasitana, lick one's lips, waasitaango, the
cleansing ...
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Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World
Expressions such as lick one's lips and keep an eye on are also difficult to deal
with because of their form: they do not seem to consist of freestanding words, but
neither are they classical idioms. A corpus study of the meanings of heel and its ...
Graham Low, Alice Deignan, Lynne Cameron, 2010
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The Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus
3 colloq. small amount (a lick of paint) . a lick and a promise colloq. hasty
performance of a task, lick a person's boots be servile, lick one's lips (or chops) I
look forward with relish. 2 show one's satisfaction, lick one's wounds be in
retirement ...
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Amharic-English dictionary: H - N.
... to expedite, hurry [vt], hurry up [vt] (ht*') '- h$\a\&+(D' to lick one's lips) (ffLCa^ □
□ fc«MTG: ' ?at^(D'^ i iv&'t'*? 1 >a»* he is a worker who knows office work well) h
^ftfUtnA. aqqalatattafa = aqqalattafa hfl+Am<f. asqalattafa to have s.o. do s.th.
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Mongolian English Dictionary
'l.,2), ~ xampaa 110110011 to lick one's lips, to be greed , to be covetous, ~
1111111111111 to shut one's mout , to keep quiet, ~ xaryy stubborn; sharp-
tongued, brusque, 111111151 1111er good fortune, goo luck, one's allotted
shore of ...
