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“Deck the Halls” was written back in the 16th century, when the English language was very different.
Obama has latched on to the failure of the embargo to topple the Castros as justification to shuffle the deck.
Deck your halls instead with boughs of holly, shouting “Merry Christmas” (or “Happy Hanukkah”) well into the night.
Anyone willing to threaten war over a joke is clearly not playing with a full deck.
For starters, from a purely practical, all-hands-on-deck position, I say if you can do the job, you should keep the job.
It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
A few moments afterward he was seen dragging his own trunk ashore, while Mr. Hitchcock finished his story on the boiler deck.
Fancy that enormous shell dropping suddenly out of the blue on to a ship's deck swarming with troops!
Maybe it didn't feel good to be on the hurricane deck of a good horse once more!
I'd much rather see what is going on than be cooped up below, and after lunch I told Bob I was going up on deck.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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