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Examples:counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action—fling one's arms and stamp one's feet (in anger or despair)—Lynn E. Davis, US academic and arms control expert, Under-secretary at US State Department 1993-1997—arms enough stem the stream (idiom); formidable army—watch with folded arms (idiom); to look on without lifting a finger—rise to action with a determined shake of the arms—bind a person's upper body, with arms tied behind the back and rope looped around the neck—bare one's arms (in agitation)—circulate (a protest or call to arms)—value letters and belittle arms (idiom); to stress civil matters and neglect the military—Bofors, Swedish arms company involved in major corruption case during 1980s—arms and confusion (idiom); turmoil of war—measure with one's hand or arm—bare one's left arm and take off one's cap as an expression of sorrow—lit. arm-flinging shopkeeper—carry (esp. slung over the arm, shoulder or side)—Perseus spiral arm (of our galaxy)—wrap one's arm around (used to describe the girth of a tree trunk)—Orion spiral arm or local spur of our galaxy (containing our solar system)—lever arm (i.e. perpendicular distance from the fulcrum the line of force)— |