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Examples:a promise worth one thousand in gold (idiom); a promise that must be kept—sb or sth that one can rely on—assistance that one gets from another—vehicle that gives one a free ride—say that one is convinced—stars (that one sees from blow the head etc)—evidence (that one can rely on)—one that has achieved the way—One-China principle, the official doctrine that Taiwan is a province of China—one keeps hearing that...—dead bullet (one that does not fire)—a task that is so familiar one can do it with one's hand tied behind one's back—know that one is in the wrong [idiom.]—avoiding doing something that one is clumsy at save face—take care that one does not—that was one thing, and this is another—high merit that one can never repay (idiom); invaluable achievements—say one and mean just that (idiom); to keep one's word—two trees that grow together as one—that one can grasp (of smile, anger)—may also indicate that one is stating a fact that the other person is not aware of—home truths (that one does not want hear)—there is no-one who doesn't know that—the thing that one cherishes most in life—traditional Asian method of calculating a person's age, which holds that a baby is one year old at birth—consider everyone else beneath one (idiom); so arrogant that no-one else matters—hide one's treasure away so that no-one knows about it (idiom); fig. modest about one's talents—sth of dubious worth that one is reluctant give up—bijective map (i.e. map between sets in math. that is one-to-one and onto)—secure in the knowledge that one has backing—lit. one phoenix feather; fig. a glimpse that reveals the whole—oh (interjection indicating that one has just learned sth)—bite the hand that feeds one [idiom.]— |