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  • 1he that cannot obey cannot command — Cf. SENECA De Ira II. xiv. nemo regere potest nisi qui et regi, no one can rule unless he can also be ruled. a 1500 tr. T. à Kempis’ De Imitatione Christi (1893) xxiv. No man surely comaun dith but he that hath lerned to obeye. 1581 G. PETTIE tr …

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  • 2he that cannot pay, let him pray — 1611 R. COTGRAVE Dict. French & English s.v. Argent, He that cannot pay let him pray. 1732 T. FULLER Gnomologia no. 6362 He that cannot pay, Let him pray. 1954 R. STOUT Three Men Out v. They’re quotations from things. One of them says, ‘He that… …

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  • 3cannot help — he could not help laughing: BE UNABLE TO STOP, be unable to refrain from, be unable to keep from. → help * * * cannot help ● help * * * cannot help 1 ◇ If you cannot help yourself, you cannot control your actions or stop yourself from doing… …

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  • 4that's the way the cookie crumbles — that’s the way the cookie crumbles informal phrase used for saying that you must accept a situation that you do not like because you cannot change it Thesaurus: words used to describe situations and circumstanceshyponym general words for… …

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  • 5cannot make head nor tail of something — cannot make head nor/or/tail of something informal phrase used for saying that you cannot understand something at all Thesaurus: ways of saying that you do not know or understandsynonym Main entry: head …

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  • 6cannot make head or tail of something — cannot make head nor/or/tail of something informal phrase used for saying that you cannot understand something at all Thesaurus: ways of saying that you do not know or understandsynonym Main entry: head …

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  • 7That — That, pron., a., conj., & adv. [AS. [eth][ae]t, neuter nom. & acc. sing. of the article (originally a demonstrative pronoun). The nom. masc. s[=e], and the nom. fem. se[ o] are from a different root. AS. [eth][ae]t is akin to D. dat, G. das, OHG …

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  • 8that — [ ðæt ] function word *** That can be used in the following ways: as a determiner (followed by a noun): Give me that hammer. as a demonstrative pronoun (without a following noun): Who gave you that? as a conjunction (connecting two clauses): I… …

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  • 9That Mitchell and Webb Look — Format Comedy sketch show Starring David Mitchell Robert …

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  • 10That Peter Kay Thing — Format Sitcom Created by Peter Kay Written by Neil Fitzmaurice Peter Kay Dave Spikey Gareth Hughes Directed by Andrew Gillman Starring …

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