«LEAD SOMEONE A DANCE» संबंधित इंग्रजी पुस्तके
खालील ग्रंथसूची निवडीमध्ये
lead someone a dance चा वापर शोधा. इंग्रजी साहित्यामध्ये वापराचा संदर्भ देण्यासाठी
lead someone a dance शी संबंधित पुस्तके आणि त्याचे थोडक्यात उतारे.
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A Collection of Confusible Phrases
She's led a dog's life since she married that man. lead someone a dance lead the
dance lead someone a dance - cause a person much unnecessary exertion or
trouble with no adequate result: The prettiest of all the girls was the schoolie, and
...
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
... be a flop. informal 1996 Prospect Simon Jenkins's book, Accountable to None,
has gone down like a lead balloon with most Conservative reviewers. lead
someone a dance: see DANCE. lead someone by the nose control someone
totally, ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
ca. 1880, s.—3. In get the lead (metal), to be shot: late C.19—early 20.—4. ln
strike the lead (metal), to be successful: Aus. coll.: C.20. (B., 1942.) Ex gold-
mining.-5. See dull as lead; get the lead out ...; swing the lead. lead (someone) a
dance.
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The Chambers Dictionary
... of foreign customers and delayed conversion of foreign currencies into sterling
(in order to take advantage of expected changes in the rate of exchange). which
have an effect on the balance of payments situation: lead someone a dance see
...
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The Representation of
Dance in Australian Novels: The ...
Idiom 'lead someone a dance' describes the tricks of a man in jail, people
causing trouble in an Indigenous compound, the illusion of the moon leading
people astray, the moon's mystique leading characters astray in terms of love, a
woman ...
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Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of ...
D21.ll To lead (someone) a DANCE (fig.) (Wh D12 from 1476) Add: cl460
Scourging (Wakefield) 80: I shall lede the[e] a dawnce unto sir Pilate hall. c1516 (
?1530) Skelton Magn. 76: Where Drede ledyth the daunce, there is no joy nor
blysse; ...
Robert William Dent, 1984
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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
D8 To lead someone a Dance 1771 Johnson Papers 8.129: We are determined
to Lead them Another Dance. 1777 *Washington Writings 8.315: They have it
much in their power to lead us a very disagreeable dance. 1795 Cobbett
Porcupine ...
Bartlett Jere Whiting, 1977
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Oxford Dictionary of English
... to all their requests. dance to someone's tune comply completely with
someone's demands. lead someone a dance (or a merry dance) Brit. cause
someone a great deal of trouble or worry. – derivatives danceable adjective,
dancey adjective.
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A Dictionary of Cliches
... unction to your soul' (Hamlet, III, iv). lead a cat and dog life, to . (Of relatives,
married couples, associates) to be constantly quarrelling: from ca. 1880. (In C. 16
–18, to agree like cat and dog.)—Cf. lead a dog's life. lead (someone) a dance, to
.
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Aspects of Altaic Civilization III: Proceedings of the ...
hukuttaa drown; huolestuttaa cause worry; hypittaa make jump, lead someone a
dance; idattaa make germinate; jattaa leave (jaada stay behind, phonology
perhaps jatta- < *jakta < ^jankta- < *jarjta-186); jaahdyttaa cool; kasvattaa grow (
trans.) ...
