10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SORT OUT THE MEN FROM THE BOYS»
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
9 in low spirits; irritable. sort out the men from the boys: see separate the men
from the boys at MAN. soul body and soul: see BODY. heart and soul: see
HEART. keep body and soul together: see BODY. the life and soul of the party:
see LIFE. a ...
The object is to disorient, to sort out the men from the boys, the smart from the
dumb, so you can figure out your options and make the right next move.
Reassure then threaten. At this point the dumb guys get confused, panic, are
overcome by ...
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Oxford Dictionary of English
'Sort of,'answeredJean cauVtiously. sort out the men from the boys show or prove
who is the best at a particular activity. the —— sort the kind of person likely to do
or be involved with the thing specified: she'd never imagined Steve to be the ...
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An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions: Second Edition
The modern use ofthe phrase does not carry this connotation, and can be taken
as being harmless.* Song and dance (1) Unnecessary fuss. (2) Unnecessary
length.* Sore thumb See stick out like a sore thumb. Sort out the men from the
boys ...
Ian Stuart-Hamilton, 2006
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Sex, Power and
the Games
... of hegemonic masculinity that dominates football, as it does most sports
women and girls are grouped together for classificatory purposes in a manner in
which men and boys are not; sport may indeed sort out the men from the boys.
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A Dictionary of Catch Phrases: American and British,
from ...
A var. is sort out the men from the boys. And see this is where the men are
separated... September. See: frozen. serene. See: all serene. sergeant. See: kiss
me, s.; some say; take his name. Sergeant-Meier. See: carry on, Sergeant;
officers ...
Eric Partridge, Paul Beale, 1992
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Dictionary of Catch Phrases
A var. is sort out the men from the boys. And see this is where the men are
separated... September. See: frozen. serene. See: all serene. sergeant. See: kiss
me, s.; some say; take his name. Sergeant-Maior. See: carry on, Sergeant;
officers ...
'This will sort out the men from the boys', he used to say, striding forth, regardless
of the chaos he left behind him; usually, a string of exhausted boys struggling to
keep up. 'This is the spot where we found the body of Mr. Whatshisname,' said ...
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Timespace: Geographies of Temporality
These are hard concepts: 'time' and 'space' sort out the men from the boys, the
real philosophers from the mere cultural theorists. At the same time, the argument
that there is 'little sense to be had from making distinctions between space and ...
Jon May, Nigel Thrift, 2003
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Daniel: A Novel of Discovery
In fact it is the hardest hole on the front nine and just the way to sort out the men
from the boys right from the start. At two hundred and fifty yards out the fairway
doglegs to the left with the inside corner thoughtfully protected with a long narrow
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The Week In Radio: It takes a woman to sort out the men from the boys
"In his secret fantasies," said the historian Amanda Vickery in her Radio 4 series Amanda Vickery on… Men, "I wonder if every British man isn't something of a ... «The Independent, Sep 12»
