10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «CHINK IN ONE'S ARMOUR»
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Crime Pays: Reflections from the Front Line of Criminal Justice
It actually quotes, “chink in one's armour”. I did speak to the chief clerk when I
saw him next. He would not say if a complaint had been made but said that some
people are very sensitive to every word that is spoken. So you see extreme
political ...
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Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words ...
Holes. The phrase to pick holes, meaning to find fault, as if to detect a weak spot (
a chink in one's armour), as in Burns' lines — If there's a hole in a' your coats, I
rede you tent it, A chield's ainang you taking notes, arose, not improbably, from a
...
Abram Smythe Palmer, 1882
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English/German Dictionary of Idioms: Supplement to the ...
wenn ..., dann heiß ich Meier Chinese it's all Chinese to melhim]... chinesisch:
das] etw. ist für jn. chinesisch 9 Dorf: böhmische Dörfer fürjn. sein chink to reveal].
.. a weaknesslweak pointla chink in one's armour Blöße: dem Gegner] eine Blöße
...
Professor Hans Schemann, 2013
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
noun the cost of the process may prove to be its Achilles heel: weak spot, weak
point, weakness, vulnerable spot, soft underbelly, shortcoming, failing,
imperfection, flaw, defect, deficiency, fault, foible, chink in one's armour; downfall,
undoing, ...
It consists simply of having previously ascertained that one is above criticism, that
there is no single chink in one's armour, that one's appearance is, as far as it
goes, without a flaw. It was an American — wasn't it ? — who explained her
aplomb ...
Francis Charles Philips, 1889
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German/English Dictionary of Idioms
... a weakness/weak point/a chink in one's armour sich eine Blöße geben ' to lay
o. s. open to attack, to expose one's weak point, to show a weakness Bei den
Verhandlungen hat er sich ganz unnötig eine Blöße gegeben. Wenn jemand
einmal ...
Holes. The phrase to pick holes, meaning to find fault, as if to detect a weak spot (
a chink in one's armour), as in Burns' lines — If there's a hole in a' your coats, 1
rede you tent it, A chield's amang you taking notes. arose, not improbably, from a
...
She had known him for years and knew, too, that the only way to avoid becoming
the victim of his barbed tongue was to show him no chink in one's armour. Lady
Birtwell was right: she was too pale, she had lost her bloom and it was going to ...
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500 Common Chinese Idioms: An Annotated Frequency Dictionary
(from Han Feizi) Antonyms: [Ё ДЖ] (Zi yuán qi Shüo ÉI ЁЁЁ) 'make one's
argument consistent and not self-contradictory] [ÍWÑÉ] (wú xiè kè 11 д'ттё) 'with
no chink in one's armour, leave no room for criticism.' 11. chéng qiän shàngwàn
Eli here ...
Liwei Jiao, Cornelius C. Kubler, Weiguo Zhang, 2013
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Harlequin Historical June 2014 - Bundle 1 of 2: Bride by ...
She had known him for years and knew, too, that the only way to avoid becoming
the victim of his barbed tongue was to show him no chink in one's armour. Lady
Birtwell was right:she was toopale, she hadlost herbloom and it was going totake
...
Katy Madison, Louise Allen, Gail Whitiker, 2014
2 NOTIZIE DOVE SI INCLUDE IL TERMINE «CHINK IN ONE'S ARMOUR»
Vedi di che si parla nei media nazionali e internazionali e come viene utilizzato il termine ino
chink in one's armour nel contesto delle seguenti notizie.
Johnson: Deliberate misunderstanding
An example might be a chink in one's armour. The Oxford English Dictionary has the word chink recorded as early as 1398, also spelt chine, ... «The Economist, ago 13»
Why should an affair mean the end of your career?
... public's fascination with high-profile men who cheat as evidence of a puritanical mindset that classifies an affair as a “chink in one's armour.”. «Globe and Mail, nov 12»
