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  1. Feb 2021
  2. www.infoworld.com www.infoworld.com
    Why getter and setter methods are evil
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    1. TylerRick 17 Feb 2021
      By the same token, marketing or political incentives often push design idioms
      design idioms software design patterns doing things for the wrong reasons doing things for business/marketing/political reasons/incentives
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  3. Dec 2020
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    Why experts are sounding the alarm about the hidden dangers of gas stoves
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    1. chrisaldrich 08 Dec 2020
      After the famous comedian Bob Hope popularized the catchphrase “now you’re cooking with gas!” on his 1930s-era radio show, the slogan became synonymous with “modern, efficient, clean.”

      Never knew Hope was the progenitor of this idiom.

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  5. Oct 2020
  6. www.idioms4you.com www.idioms4you.com
    an uphill battle
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    1. TylerRick 09 Oct 2020
      idioms uphill battle examples
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  7. Jul 2020
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    Idiom - Wikipedia
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    1. TylerRick 24 Jul 2020
      idioms language: figurative use of word
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  9. May 2020
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    Spoken word equivalent for "paper does not refuse ink"
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    1. TylerRick 27 May 2020
      skepticism analogy English idioms
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    Definition of WITH A CRITICAL EYE
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    1. TylerRick 13 May 2020
      idioms
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    Cat and mouse - Wikipedia
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    1. TylerRick 05 May 2020
      cat and mouse game idioms
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  13. Dec 2015
  14. cityheiress.sfsuenglishdh.net cityheiress.sfsuenglishdh.net
    ACT III
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    1. johnkautzer 03 Dec 2015
      forelock

      Regarded as a piece of a horse-harness (OED).

      To take fortune, also regarded as time, by the forelock means to sieze an opportunity. (Oxford Dictionaries)

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    ACT IV
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    1. nia 03 Dec 2015
      Jack−sauce

      "Jack-sauce" n. Obs. a saucy or impudent fellow. (OED online)

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    ACT II
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    1. jwpaneto 03 Dec 2015
      dead Lift

      A position or juncture in which one can do no more, an extremity, ‘a hopeless exigence’ (Johnson). Usually in phrase at a dead lift. (Very common in the 17th c.: now arch. or dial.) (OED)

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