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• Weight one’s word.
Be careful to what one says.
• Wait for a raindrop in the drought.
When someone is waiting for a raindrop in the drought, they are waiting or hoping for something that is
extremely unlikely to happen.
• Walking on broken glass.
When a person is punished for something.
• Wet behind the ears.
Someone who is wet behind the ears is either very young or inexperienced.
• Whale of a time.
If you have a whale of a time, you really enjoy yourself.
• Work your fingers to the bone.
If you work fingers to the bone, you work extremely hard on something.
• Wrench in the works.
If someone puts or throws as wrench, or monkey wrench, in the works, they ruin a plan.
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