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to tread on someone's corns ( + ) fi§ M%AMm& ; M&%Att£S i f*T K AMiSIf (I'm
afraid I rrod on John 's corns when I asked him how he was going on with his wife
! #ficP<JJ#Ji^tfe#Wlfc A xtmmMm - JETftb ! ) * to tread on someone's toes ilffl Si A
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
tread tread on (someone's) corns see corn. tread on (someone's) toes see toe.
tread water see water. tree a family tree see family. not to be able to see the wood
for the trees see wood. tremble be/go in fear and trembling (of) (esp facet) to be ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
To tread on someone's corns (EAP 84; MP 132) 1869 You tread upon their corns.
(p. 253) Gilbert, W. S. The Bab Ballads. Ed. James Ellis. Cambridge, Mass.:
Belknap Press, 1970. 1920 TRAHERNE: We'd better be careful not to tread on
their ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
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The Chambers Dictionary
tread on someone's corns to hurt someone's feelings. [L cornu a horn]
cornaceous. See cornel. cornage korn'ij, (hist) n a feudal service or rent fixed
according to number of horned cattle, horngeld. [OFr, from L cornu horn] cornea
kor'ni-3. n the ...
... He turned out to be not much cop as an actor. corn tread on (someone's) corns
to hurt (someone's) feelings: He is very tactless and is always treading on other
people 's corns. corner cut corners to use less money, effort, time etc when doing
...
... promise that we will not occasionally tread on someone's corns. The only
remedy for this, that we are acquainted with, is to have no corns. What we desire
is to see medicine occupy its proper position and it is the work of the profession to
do ...
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Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French
5 Marcher sur les pieds de quelqu 'un: To 'tread on someone's corns', to oflend
someone. 6 Marcher à la dix heures dix: To have a 'ten-to-two' gait (with the tips
of one's feet pointing outwards). 7 Avoir appris à marcher sur un tonneau: To be ...
E A Lovatt Esq, R J H, R. J. H 'erail, 2005
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The Nelson Contemporary English Dictionary
... oats, maize corn2 (kawnl n a small area of hardened skin on the foot, apt to
cause discomfort tread on someone's corns to hurt someone's feelings, often
unintentionally corncob (kawn'kobl n the seed pod of the maize corncrake (kawn'
kraykl ...
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Chambers Pocket Dictionary
tread on someone's corns (coll) to hurt someone's feelings. [Lat cornu, horn] Corn
, abbrev Cornwall, corncrake n a bird with a harsh grating cry, that inhabits
cornfields, [corn' + crake, from Norse krakr, crow] cornea n the transparent
covering of ...
Elaine Higgleton, Howard Sargeant, Anne Seaton, 1992
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Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. ...
I am not justifying anything, but . . . even if I must tread on someone's corns, who
believes that an anarchist must automatically be a hero and not a man like all the
other mortals? We are just a few, and to a large part of the few, life is still ...
