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What word or phrase relates to 'being able to see through manipulation?'

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Alternative to “queer the deal”?

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Is there a word or expression to describe when someone has learned a big word and is waiting for an opportunity to use it?

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How to define a sense of bitter satisfaction (or ironic bitterness) at having resigned over a principle - which was then upheld after you left

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Word for people of low comprehension

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How to change the phrase “the way” to an actual “thing”?

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A word that means “lacking meaning/context because displaced” (besides “anachronistic”)

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What’s a good English expression for the Chinese idiom “buying horse bones with much gold” (千金买马骨)?

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Is the expression “in seek of” acceptable?

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