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| Concept: | Failure. |
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the bubble has burst, "the game is up" [Cymbeline]; all is lost; the devil to pay; parturiunt montes (disappointment); dies
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| Antonyms: | success |
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| Concept: | Waste. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; actual subservience |
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magno conatu magnas nugas; le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle; "idly busy rolls their world away" [Goldsmith].
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| Concept: | Unsubstantiality. |
| Category: | 2. BEING, IN THE CONCRETE |
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there's nothing in it; "an ocean of dreams without a sound" [Shelley].
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| Antonyms: | substantiality |
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