| Concept: | Age. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
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"give me a staff of honor for my age" [Titus Andronicus]; bis pueri senes ["Old men are boys again" (Latin)]; peu de gens savent être vieux ["Few know how to be old" (French)]; plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus [Pliny the Younger. "Who has departed full in years has departed full in honors" (Latin)]; "old age is creeping on apace" [Byron]; "slow-consuming age"' [Gray]; "the hoary head is a crown of glory" [Proverbs xvi, [more]]; "the silver livery of advised age" [II Henry VI]; to grow old gracefully; "to vanish in the chinks
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| Antonyms: | youth, adolescence |
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| Concept: | Deterioration. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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out of the frying pan into the fire; agrescit medendo; "what a falling off was there!" [Hamlet].
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| Antonyms: | improvement, restoration |
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| Concept: | Dissent. |
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many men many minds; quot homines tot sententiae [Terence]; tant s'en faut; il s'en faut bien.
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| Antonyms: | assent |
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| Concept: | Evening. [Midnight] |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
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"midnight, the outpost of advancing day" [Longfellow]; "sable-vested Night" [Milton]; "this gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay'd" [Young].
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| Antonyms: | morning |
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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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