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Examples:Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up late Dec on Gregorian calendar)—a plank road (built on trestles across the face of a cliff)—accept a position on a provisional basis, in the absence of better qualified candidates (humble expr.)—Hakone, city on the east coast of Japan southwest of Tōkyō—discount the interest on a bill of exchange—(adverbial expression indicating that the attention of the subject of the verb is focused on what they are doing, not distracted by anything else)—Laba rice porridge festival, on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month—Asturias, northwest Spanish autonomous principality on the bay of Biscay—seems on the face of it be—gift money (on the occasion of a wedding etc)—back (the area of a vertebrate animal's body on either side of the backbone)—the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century—focus attention on one phrase without regard to the meaning of the whole piece—name day (tradition of celebrating a given name on a certain day of the year)—rifling (spiral lines on inside of gun barrel imparting spin the bullet)—lit. a notch on the side of a boat locate a sword dropped overboard (idiom); fig. an action made pointless by changed circumstances—"Legal Quotient (LQ)", standard reflecting a lawyer's legal ability based on the four tenets of legal knowledge, situational assessment, conduct and righteousness—Report of the Select Committee on US National Security and Military-Commercial Concerns with the PRC (1999); Committee Chairman Republican Rep. Chris Cox—the Bao-Jia system (an administrative system organized on basis of households)—select, on the basis of a vote or consensus—dilly-dally on the pretence of being ill—a popular form of narrative literature flourishing in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) with alternate prose and rhymed parts for recitation and singing (often on Buddhist themes)—the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year in24 equal periods—Hajdú-Bihar province of east Hungary on the border with Romania—"Shiming", late Han dictionary, containing 1502 entries, using puns on the pronunciation of headwords explain their meaning—lit. viewing the sky with a basin on one's head; it is hard get a clear view of the sky while carrying a platter on one's head—Altai mountain chain on the border of Russia and Mongolia—the embryonic development of grain while still on the stem—Bushehr Province of south Iran, bordering on the Persian Gulf—(of a gown etc) trail on the ground—genuflection, a form of salutation in Qing times performed by men, going down on the right knee and reaching down with the right hand—fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation—lit. speak of two things on the same day (idiom); to mention things on equal terms (often with negatives: you can't mention X at the same time as Y)—prodigious abundance of fruit (idiom); fruit hangs heavy on the bow—Hualián or Hualien county on the east coast of Taiwan—carry on the good work of one's predecessors—hit home on the evils of the day (idiom); fig. to hit a current political target—Virupaksa (on of the Four Heavenly Kings)—Bonn, a small town on the Rhine, Cold War capital of West Germany 1949-1990—write a poem on the order of the Emperor—(of the sun) beat down on—ten years of practice for one minute on the stage [idiom.]—sailing on the sea of learning [idiom.]—be on the verge of eruption [idiom.]— |