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Idioms and Phrases

Intend to, as in I meant to go running this morning but got up too late , or I'm sorry I broke it—I didn't mean to . This idiom was first recorded in 1560.
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Example Sentences

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"We saw with Newcastle what seeing your team lift silverware can mean to supporters and sometimes it's a once in a lifetime type thing," he added.

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Most Americans don’t really know what due process is, or what losing it will mean to democracy.

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In a theatrical tradition, what does it mean to create our own stuff and center our own gaze in our making of things?

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Christina Grossi, who has worked at Ford for 25 years, said the prospect of losing her job, and what it will mean to her family, is "terrifying".

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"I had to come down here. We need to show the country how much our steelworks mean to us."

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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