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An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions
Take the bull by the horns Deal with a problem directly and decisively* Take the
cake Means the same as take the biscuit. Take the chequered flag Win a race.
The phrase derives from the waving of a black and white chequered flag to
indicate ...
Ian Stuart-Hamilton,
2004
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Chembers 21 Century Dictionary
Also called biscuitware and BISQUE. 4 a pale golden brown or pale tan colour.
Also called BISQUE. o aai pale golden brown or pale tan in colour. • biscuity adj
like a biscuit in flavour, texture or colour. • take the biscuit Brit, ironic colloq to ...
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Morphologie / Morphology. 1. Halbband
Complex lexical structures For some authorities, idiomatic phrases such as red
herring or take the biscuit are lexemes. This type of lexeme is sometimes called a
phrasal lexeme (Lyons 1977:23). Others, however, object to this usage. If take ...
Geert E. Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan,
2000
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ReJoycing: New Readings of Dubliners
In Dubliners, characters "take the biscuit" in order to empower themselves and to
rage against a hierarchy that fetishizes the narrator. It is precisely these changes
in the narrative register, where the spectacle of characters' actions manifest ...
Rosa Bollettieri Bosinelli, Harold F. Mosher, Jr.
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Sugar and Spice... Exploring Food and Drink Idioms in English
English equivalent (TO) TAKE THE BISCUIT.35 So in CALD2 (s.v. BISCUIT) it is
possible to read “And you say she's opening your letters now? Oh, that really
takes the biscuit!”, in OALD7 (s.v. BISCUIT) “You've done some stupid things
before, ...
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Slicing
the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica
Part of what allowed Keneally to take the biscuit, I suspect, was a disbelief that he
was a tourist. And strictly, he wasn't. Keneally might have visited Antarctica for
less than a fortnight, but he was an invited member of an official party in the ...
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The Flying
Biscuit Cafe Cookbook
And she also was not afraid to ask friends, and friends of friends, for help. She
believed that, deep down, people actually enjoy helping others; she also
recognized that she didn't have to try to do everything by herself. Take the
Biscuit's original ...
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English-Albanian Dictionary of Idioms
O On such a nice day, one should get out and take the air. 2. fillon transmetimin (
radiofonik) □ The new radio station will take the air next week. take the biscuit/
cake eshte gjeja me idiote (me zbavitese, me e habitshme, me e merzitshme, me
...
Flour your hands if desired, then take the biscuit and pound it flat using the palm
of your hand. Flatten the biscuit to about 5-6 inches in diameter. Then place the
biscuit onto an un-greased cookie or baking sheet. Open the jar of baby food and
...
Take the biscuit (cake) Be the best (or worst) at something; be surprising (i) The
girls in the class take the biscuit both in studies and sports. (ii) None can take the
biscuit (or cake) as well as he, in the matter of making irrelevant remarks.
Prof. V.N. Sadasiva Rau, Sura College of Competition,
2004
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Violent crime figures 'take the biscuit'
They include a man being hit with a biscuit and a child being brushed with a nettle. Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner Stephen Bett recently asked the ... «Irish Examiner, Cze 15»
Mature students - they really take the biscuit
There's a lot of tea and the occasional hysterical biscuit-eating session in the life of the mature student. Photo / Carolyn Robertson. This week, my mum is ... «New Zealand Herald, Cze 15»
100 new jobs in Drogheda really take the biscuit
A new Irish biscuit company, East Coast Bakehouse, is creating 100 jobs in Drogheda, including R&D roles, at a large-scale biscuit manufacturing facility. «Siliconrepublic.com, Cze 15»
Bablake Junior School pupils take the biscuit!
Headmaster Neil Price said: “Some of the biscuits were delicious, whereas some pupils struggled with the rigour required to produce the perfect texture. «Coventry Telegraph, Sty 15»
Sweet ride! Feast eyes on VW camper van that takes the biscuit …
When it comes to bizarre Christmas treats, the engineers at Volkswagen really take the biscuit - because they've created a camper van out of GINGERBREAD. «Mirror.co.uk, Gru 14»
ALEX BRUMMER: Ottomans take the biscuit as Jaffa Cakes owners …
For as long as I can remember the private equity owners of United Biscuits, owners ... What could be more logical than taking Jaffa cakes back to the Middle East ... «This is Money, Lis 14»
Scottish Parliament thieves take the biscuit — and shoes, trainers …
A thief took the biscuit — actually a whole box of them — at the Scottish ... who made off with the unopened large blue box of Fox's biscuits left sitting on a desk in ... «The Courier, Wrz 14»