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‘W’







                          •    Wallflower.
                               A shy person who is not asked to dance is a wallflower.
                          •    Watch your six.

                               This idiom means that you should look behind you for dangers coming that you can’t see.
                          •    Water over tha dam.

                               If something has happened and cannot be changed, it is water over the dam.
                          •    Wedge politics

                               In wedge politics, one party uses an issue that they hope will divide members of a different party to créate
                               conflict and weaken it.
                          •    What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

                               This means that you can’t expect people to behave in a way that is not in their character- a ‘hog’ is a ‘pig’,
                               so an unrefined person can’t be expected to behave in a refined way.

                          •    Where the rubber meets the road.
                               Where the rubber meets the road is the most important point for something, the moment of truth. An

                               athlete can train all day, but the race is where the rubber meets the road and they’ll know how good they
                               really are.


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