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• Yell bloody murder.
If someone yells bloody murder, they protest angrily and loudly, or scream in fear.
• You can’t get there from here.
Us expression used in the New England era (most frequently in Maine) by persons being asked for directions
to a far distant location that cannot be accessed without ectensive, complicated directions.
• You can’t have cake and the topping, too.
This idiom means that you can’t have everything the way you want it, especially if your desiries are contradictory.
• You’ve got rocks in your head.
Someone who has acted with a lack of intelligence has rocks in their head.
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