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                              •   Vale of tears.

                                   This vale of tears is the world and the suffering that life brings.
                              •   Velvet glove.
                                   This idiom is used to decribe a person who appears gentle, but is determined and inflexible underneath.

                                   (‘Iron fist in a velvet glove’ is the full form.)
                              •   Vent your spleen.

                                   If someone vent your spleen, they release all their anger about something.
                              •   Vicar of Bray.
                                   A person who changes their beliefs and principles to stay popular with people above them is a Vicar of Bray.
                              •   Vicious circle.

                                   A vicious circle is a sequence of events that make each other worse-someone drinks because they bare

                                   unhappy at work, and then loses their job…’Vicious cycle’ is also used.
                              •   Vinegar tits.
                                   A mean spirited women lacking in love or compassion.
                              •   Virgin territory.

                                   If something is virgin territory, it hasn’t been explored before.

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