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  • See also: now-now, and now now now now now, now A gentle reproach or admonition. Now, now. Don't be rude. A reassurance. Now, now, there's nothing to...
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  • now now now, now now-nowism now or never now-or-never now that now that's what I call now that you mention it now then now we're talking now what now...
    23 KB (1,577 words) - 13:00, 13 November 2024
  • To waste time doing pointless or silly things What are you pratting about with now? Get your homework done. (informal) To fail to do something correctly...
    412 bytes (71 words) - 21:41, 11 August 2024
  • by the way; now that I think about it; indicates something brought to mind. Come to think of it, it's curious that nobody was there. now you mention it...
    1 KB (45 words) - 04:47, 28 September 2024
  • bang about bash about bat about be about be all about beat about beat about the bush bonce about boss about brace about bring about bucket about bugger...
    44 KB (3,278 words) - 02:11, 31 October 2024
  • you tell me tell me about it “now you tell me” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman. “now you tell me” (US) / “now you tell me” (UK) in...
    332 bytes (56 words) - 18:27, 4 September 2021
  • London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC: That now vnto despaire I gin to growe, And meane for better winde about to throwe. 1805, The Naval Chronicle: Volume...
    654 bytes (126 words) - 03:42, 2 February 2024
  • about to jump. She seemed about to say something. 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Acts of the Apostles, xviii, 14 And when Paul was now...
    5 KB (297 words) - 06:48, 5 October 2024
  • wanted to put herself up over everybody else? [Brother Boxer] Now, that's what I'm talking about. The Word say, You going to know a tree by it's fruit. And...
    2 KB (182 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2024
  • stop coding and go grab a couple of pints." Bob: "Now you're talking!" Phrase indicating agreement now you're cooking now that's what I'm talking about...
    909 bytes (49 words) - 02:11, 8 October 2024
  • Romance: “We?” Byrd questioned, looking confused. “Yes, we, muthafucka!” Big Lee replied sarcastically. “You're my child now, and I don't play about mine!...
    494 bytes (68 words) - 12:25, 15 September 2024
  • him when he was out and about. She had been in hospital, but now she is out and about again. up and about on the go “out and about”, in Lexico, Dictionary...
    543 bytes (65 words) - 13:49, 2 June 2024
  • talk about (third-person singular simple present talks about, present participle talking about, simple past and past participle talked about) Used other...
    2 KB (280 words) - 07:30, 5 October 2024
  • render them [ICJP] ineffective now, then we leave the way clear for a direct approach without all the ballsing about. (chiefly British, vulgar, slang)...
    1 KB (150 words) - 22:04, 2 June 2024
  • simple present sets about, present participle setting about, simple past and past participle set about) Used with the adverb sense of about. (transitive, archaic...
    8 KB (1,261 words) - 11:04, 12 November 2024
  • Shortening of now that you mention it now you mention it (idiomatic) Used to precede another comment about something just mentioned. Synonyms: come to...
    1 KB (172 words) - 07:15, 5 October 2024
  • dandy, socialite, woman about town 1886, Punch‎[1], volume 91, page 249: For in this quality of “clubbable,” and the value now put upon it, lies the whole...
    1 KB (159 words) - 10:58, 27 September 2024
  • Reminded of some of his past opinions about the coalition, he smiled and said what amounted to: That was then; this is now. 2007 February 1, Christopher Hume...
    2 KB (249 words) - 20:15, 31 August 2023
  • a former speechwriter for Mr. Bush, Michael Gerson, about Mr. Trump: “He lives in the eternal now—no history, no consequences.” (religion, philosophy)...
    4 KB (454 words) - 21:04, 29 August 2023
  • archived from the original on 2023-10-03: There had been a sense of now or never about this semi-final for United. Another elimination would be a fifth last-four...
    4 KB (471 words) - 08:56, 4 November 2024
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