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+ | |Now ||phr||"Now I Have Seen Everything" - comment on an ocasion of witnessing something very unusual or ludicrous (the implication being being thst nothing the speaker might see in the future woul be sufficiently extraordinary to surprise him or her). |
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+ | |Now ||phr||"Now You See It, Now You Don't" - one is probably being misled. 2. one can't be sure something is so but one had better be careful and watcchful (of Tricksters at fairs. etc) who by sleight of hand make it difficult for customers to identify which of the three thimbles have a pea under it) |
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Old English | sp | English |
No | n | |
No | adv | Referring to the degree to which a certain quality is present; "he was no smarter than a monkey" no more. 2. not in any degree or manner; not at all. 3. used to express refusal or denial or disagreement etc or especially to emphasize a negative statement; "no, you are wrong." |
No | adj | A quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns for indicating a complete or almost complete lack or zero quantity of. |
No | phr | "By No Means" - not at all |
No | phr | "Go No Farther" - say no more; act no further. |
No | phr | "No Better than Should Ought Be" - no less, no more. |
No | phr | "No Call No Show" - |
No | phr | "No Can Do" - it is not possible without the power of another. |
No | phr | "No End To" - on and on for a long time. |
No | phr | "No Fear" - no; certainly not. |
No | phr | "No Fewer Than" - not few, more than a few; a small number (implication being that this is more than be expected). |
No | phr | "No Go" - not possible, not allowed; not desirable. |
No | phr | "No Great Shakes" - of no special importance. |
No | phr | "No Hard Feelings" |
No | phr | "No Known Abode" - having no permanent place of residence or business address through which one can be traced. |
No | phr | "No Less" - even, furthermore, not to mention. |
No | phr | "No Less than" - used in reference to number comparison or degree. |
No | phr | "No Longer than" - not now; no more. |
No | phr | "No Longer with Us" - dead, passed away; deceased, died. |
No | phr | "No Love Lost" - |
No | phr | "No Man is an Iland" - nobody lives in complete independence of others. |
No | phr | "No Man's Land" - lying between two opposing army fronts; disputed, unapportioned, or merely desolate territory. |
No | phr | "No More" - nothing more or further. 2. not any more, no further. 3. no further. 4. no more existing, departed; dead, gone. 5. just a little, neither. |
No | phr | "No News Is Good News" - no communication, information, from or about somebody or something tends to mean that all is going well, that no disaster or trouble has occurred, that no help is needed. |
No | phr | "No Rest for the Wicked" - fear, worry, harassment is the lot of the wrong-doer. |
No | phr | "No Room at the Inn" - |
No | phr | "No Room to Swing a Cat" - a restricted or overcrowded, space to live in or work in. |
No | phr | "No Skin Off One's Back" - |
No | phr | "No Smoke Without Fire" - signs, indication of one's presence or involvement (but esp. rumors, scandals, doesn't arise from nothing, always has some case or basis. |
No | phr | "No Smoking, Thank You" - a phrase used in notices indicating that the smoking of cigarettes, etc., is not permitted in the nearby or surrounding area. |
No | phr | "No Spring Chicken" - |
No | phr | "No Such Thing" - not at all, or a different matter. 2. not as previously described. 2. not thta which is ordered, suggested, planned, implied, or accused. |
No | phr | "No Sweat" - |
No | phr | "No Thank You" - |
No | phr | "No Time at All" - very quickly |
No | phr | "No Way" - definitely no; definitely not. |
No | phr | "No Way of Doing Something" - no means whereby one can do something. |
No | phr | "No Way Out of Here" - there no escape or way out. |
No | phr | "No What" - not at all, not in the least. |
No | phr | "Say No To" - answer someone with a no. |
No | phr | "There Are No Flies on Him" - somebody is astute; somebody is able to look after his own interests and won't be deceived or taken advantage of. |
No | phr | "There Is No Time Like Now" - now is the best time to do something. |
No | phr | "Won't Take No for an Answer" - that one wants only a positive answer. |
No-being | n | Negative existence, non-existence, non-entity. |
Nobody | n | No person; a person of no important. 2. no one, not anybody, hence: a person of no influence or importance; an insignificant or contemptuous person. |
Nobody | phr | "Nobody in Their Right Mind Would Do So" - no sensible or sane person would do such a thing; (the implication being that one wa sthinking about doing something crazy or dangerous). |
No-bodyness | n | The state or quality of being of no importance. 2. state of being insignificant or contemptuous. |
No-brainer | n | Anything that requires little thought in order to reach the correct decision |
No-end | adv | On and for a long time. |
No-fly | adj | |
No-go | n | An impractical situation, balk, indecisiveness. 2. impasse, of an area, impossible to enter (because of a barricade); to which entry is forbidden for specified persons, groups, etc . 2. not functioning properly or in a suitable condition for proceeding. 3. fiasco, failure. |
No-god | adj | Atheistic, beliefless; a belief system or set of beliefs based on "No-god." 2. a "no-god" thinker. |
No-good | n | A useless, valueless or worthless person: a no-gooder. |
No-hoper | n | A horse with no prospect of winning; an outsider. 2. a useless or incompetent person, one who from no good could be expected. 3. a person without merit or prospects; a derelict. 4. one who cannot be trusted. |
No-how | n | Ability, skill, means. |
No-how | adv | In no manner, by no means, not at all. |
No-howish | adj | Somewaht or rather |
No-kind | adv | No kind of, not any. |
No-knock | adj | Of a police raid without permission or warrant. |
No less | adv | Even, furthermore, not to mention. |
Noll | n | The top of the head, the poll or the crown of the head; the head generally. 2. the nape of the neck. 3, dull drunken person. 4. an extreme point or peak. 5. a small earthen mound. 6. the top of a sand dune. |
Noll-bone | n | The occiput. |
Nolled | adj | Having a noll or peak.. |
No-man | n | A no-one; a nobody. 2. a man who says "no"; a no-man as opposed to a yes-man 3. one who is accustomed to disagree or refuse requests in a resolute manner. 4. a contrarian |
No-man's land | n | A piece of waste, or unoccupied land, lying outside the north wall of London, used in earlier times as a place of execution of criminals. 2. In a war context: land under dispute by opposing parties, esp. the field of battle between the lines of two opposing entrenched armies. 3. an unclaimed or unnamed piece of land. 4. an area of uncertainty or ambiguity in discussion, debate, politics, learning and life in general. |
No-meaning | adj | Absence or want of meaning or purpose; nonsense, unmeaningness. |
None | adj | Not any; "thou shalt have none other gods before". 2. no one; not one; not anything; --not any. |
None | adv | Not at all, none of, or in no way; "seemed none too pleased with his dinner". |
None | phr | "Have None of It" - not agree to accept something. |
None | phr | "None Other" - no other thing; nothing else. |
None | phr | "None Other than" - the same as, the named person himself/ herself ( the implication being he is somebody famous or important, or somebody unexpected in the particular circumstances) |
None | phr | "None So Blind/Deaf as Those Who Will Not See/Hear" - people will not see/hear what they are stubbornly determined to avoid seeing/hearing |
None | phr | "None the Less" - nevertheless, in spite of something said, done or occurring. |
None | phr | "None the Wiser" - knowing no more than before. |
None | phr | "None the Worse for - not harmed or damaged further by. |
None | phr | "None to" - not very, as, "none to smart" |
None | phr | "None Too Soon" - (almost) too late; later than is suitable or desirable. |
Nonesuch | n | A model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal;, paragon, a non-pareil, an ideal. 2. a person or thing of a sort that there is no such other;something extraordinary. |
Nonetheless | adv | Despite anything to the contrary (usu. following a concession), however, withal, still, yet, all the same, even so, notwithstanding. |
No-no | n | Something that must not be done, used etc. 2. something that is forbidden, or not acceptable or fallacious. 3. something improper, unethical, ina dvisable or illegal, as, salt is a no-no for someone after a heart attack. |
Noon | n | The ninth hour of the day; according to the Roman method reckoned from sunrise to about three o'clock in the afternoon. 2. midday; 12 o'clock in the day. 3. the most important hour of the day; the middle of the day. 4. the place of the moon at midnight. 5. the mid-day sun. 6. the time of night corresponding to midday: midnight (the noon of the night). 7. Culmination or highest point of something. |
Noon | vb | To halt or rest at noon, or in the middle of the day. 2. to stop for, or partake of a noon-day meal. |
Noon-beam | n | Sunbeams or sunny beams at midday.. |
Noon-bright | adj | Of the sky at midday |
Noon-day | n | The middle of the day, noon-time, noontide. |
Noon-day devil | n | |
No one | . | |
Nooner | n | |
Noon-hall | n | A dining hall. |
Noon-hot | adj | The intense heat of the midday sun in the tropics. |
Nooning | n | Noon-tide, noon-time. 2. a noon-day or midday meal; noon-meat; lunch. 3. a rest or repose at noon; a siesta. |
Noon-light | n | The light of noon, or clearest light of day. |
Noon-mark | n | A mark which indicates when it is noon. |
Noon-meat | n | A meal or food eaten at midday, luncheon. |
Noon-shadow | n | Noon-wanderings with meteor falling to earth. |
Noon-shine | n | A jocular form of nuncheon. |
Noon-slight | n | The sickle moon. |
Noon-spell | n | A rest-time at midday or noon. |
Noon-stead | n | The position or station of the sun at noon. |
Noon-steading | n | The time or coming of the meridian. |
Noon-sun | n | The meridian sun. |
Noon-tide | n | The time of midday. 2. the period of culmination; the noon-tide of glory. 3. the position of the moon at midnight. 4. fig. the culminating point of something. |
Noon-tide | adj | Of, or occurring at, or characteristic of the noon. |
Noon-time | n | |
Nor | conj | (Used in negative phrases, especially after neither, to introduce the second member in a series, or any subsequent member): neither he nor I will be there. They won't wait for you, nor for me, nor for anybody. 2. (used to continue the force of a negative, as not, no, never, etc., occurring in a preceding clause): He left and I never saw him again, nor did I regret it. 3. (used after an affirmative clause, or as a continuative, in the sense of and no): They are happy, nor need we worry. 4. in older use: "than".5. archaic. (used without a preceding neither, the negative force of which.aa |
Nor | adv | To, towards or in the north-east. 2. the compass point between north and east; |
Norenish | n | Norwegian |
No-right | n | In jurisprudence, an obligation not to prevent the exercise of a privilege. |
Nor'-nor-east' | adv | North-north-east. |
North | n | A region or cardinal point opposite to the midday sun. 2. part of the world; part of a country 3. |
North | adj | Of the wind: to begin to blow from the north. 2. to turn or veer towards the north. |
North | phr | "A Little More North" - an alcoholic drink stronger than usual. |
North | phr | "By North" - on the north side. |
North | phr | "North and South" - mouth (slang). |
North | phr | "Too Far North" - too clever, too knowing. |
North-East | n | The part of the country or town lying to the north-east. |
North-east | adj | Towards or coming from the north-east. |
North-east | adv | The point of the horizon midway between north and east. 2. the compass point corresponding to this. 3. the direction to which this lies. 4. towards, at, or near the north-east. |
North-easter | n | A wind-blowing from the north-east. |
North-easterly | adv | Of the wind, blowing from the north-east. 2. lying towards the north-east. 3. from or towards the north-east. |
North-eastward | adv | Towards the north-east. 2. in a northeast direction. 3. situated towards north-east or in the |
North-end | adj | The northern end or extremity of anything, such as the North of England. |
Norther | n | Of a northerly wind blowing in various places throughout the world. |
Northerliness | n | The state of lying or being northerly or northern. |
Northern | adj | The more of two places or things. 2. situated or lying to the north. |
Northern lights | n | The aurora of the northern hemisphere, "Aurora borealis". |
Northerly | n | A wind blowing from the north. |
Northerly | adj | In a northern position or direction. 2. of wind blowing from the north. |
Northerly | adv | In a northern position or direction. 2. of wind blowing from the north. |
Northern | adj | Of or in the north; inhabiting. 2. lying or directed towards the north. |
Northerner | n | A native or inhabitant of the north. |
Northernmost | adj | Most northern. |
Northern-mostness | n | The state of being northernmost. |
Northern'ness | n | An inhabitant of Scandinavia, an inhabitant of the north of Europe; esp. one of the inhabitants ancient Scandinavia; a Norwegian. |
Northernwards | adv | Towards the north. |
North-half | n | The north-side or part; the northern half. |
Northing. | n | In a nautical sense: the distance traveled or measured northward. |
Northing | phr | "Make (so much) Northing" - distance traveled to the north. |
Northland | n | Part of a country or region lying in the north. |
Northlander | n | One from from a northern country or region. |
North light | n | A good natural light without the direct sun, esp. as desired by painters and in factory design. 2. a light coming from the north. |
Northman | n | An inhabitant or native of Norway or Scandinavia. 2. a Scandinavian; esp. in history, a Scandinavian of Viking times. 3. See: Norman, Norseman. |
Northmost | adj | Most northerly, northernmost. |
Northness | n | The quality or state of being relatively north. |
North-north-west | n | The point or direction midway between north and north-west. |
North Sea | n | An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between Britain (in the west), Scandinavia (in the east) and Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France (in the south). 2. the Bristol channel. 3. the German Sea. 4. the Baltic Sea. 5. the seas of the Northern Hemisphere. |
North-shine | n | Aurora Borealis. |
Northside | n | The side that is on the north. |
North star | n | The pole star. |
Northumber | n | Relating to the ancient Northumbria or Northumberland. |
Northwardly | adv | |
Northwards | Towards the north. 2. the northwards direction or region. | |
North-West | n | The part of a country or town lying to the north west. |
North-West | adj | Towards or coming from the north-west. |
North-west | adv | The point of the horizon midway between north and west. 2. the compass point corresponding to this. 3. the direction to which this lies. 4. towards, at, or near the north-west. |
North-westward | adj | Towards the north-west. |
North wind | n | |
Nose | n | The part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice. 2. this part as the organ of smell. 3. the sense of smell: fragrances appealing to the nose. 4. anything regarded as resembling the nose of a person or animal, as a spout or nozzle. 5. the prow of a ship. |
Nose | vb | To perceive by or as by the nose or the sense of smell: a cheese that could be nosed at some distance. 2. to approach the nose to, as in smelling or examining; sniff. 3. to move or push forward with or as with the nose: "The boat nosed its way toward shore". 4. to touch or rub with the nose; nuzzle. 5. to seek as if by smelling or scent: The dogs nosed after their quarry. 6. to meddle or pry (often followed by about, into other people's business). |
Nose | phr | "Before One's Nose" - right in the front of. |
Nose | phr | "Be Hard Nosed" - tough in negotiation. |
Nose | phr | "Bite Someone's Nose Off" - to speak to someone aggressively; answer snappingly. |
Nose | phr | "Bloody Somebody's Nose" - hurt someone, not necessarily physically. |
Nose | phr | "Bone One's Nose" - cheat, swindle. |
Nose | phr | "Follow One's Nose" - to go forward in a straight course. 2. to guide oneself by instinct; to act instinctively. |
Nose | phr | "Get a Bloody Nose" - to suffer an undignified rebuff. |
Nose | phr | "Get up Someone's Nose" - to irritate or annoy a person. |
Nose | phr | Have a (good) Nose for (Business)" - to be able to identify or be good at finding (profitable business) situations or opportunities. |
Nose | phr | "Hold One's Nose" -to compress the nostrils between the finger in order to prevent a bad smell reaching your nostrils. 2. have feelings of distaste, repulsion, or offense for something that one is obliged to do. |
Nose | phr | "Hold Up One's Nose" - be proud or haughty. 2. have an inclination or hankering. |
Nose | phr | "Keep One's Nose Clean": to behave oneself; avoid or stay out of trouble or scandal. |
Nose | phr | "Keep One's Nose to the Grindstone" - to work hard, steadily and diligently, to apply one steadily. 2. to set oneself to a long and arduous task with diligence. |
Nose | phr | "Keep One's Nose Out of Something" - not to meddle in something or the affairs of others. |
Nose | phr | "Lead by the Nose." - to lead at pleasure, or to cause to follow submissively. 2. to induce another person to comply with one's wishes. |
Nose | phr | "Look Down the Nose At " (Something or Someone)" - to treat a matter or person with disdain or utter contempt. |
Nose | phr | "Make Ones Nose Swell" - to make one envious or jealous. |
Nose | phr | "Nose of Wax" - a thing easily turned or molded in any way desired. 2. a person easily influenced; one of a weak character. |
Nose | phr | "Nose to Nose" - face to face; directly opposite. |
Nose | phr | "Nose Out" - to defeat, especially by a narrow margin. 2. to learn or discover, especially by snooping or prying: to nose out a secret. 3. discover by smell, or persistent searching. |
Nose | phr | "On the Nose" - exactly, to the heart of the situation, accurately, precisely on time. 2. racing to win, as opposed to, placed on to share. 3. smelling malodorously. 4. "be on the nose" - (of a proposal or scheme): not to be quite honest. |
Nose | phr | "On the Nose Of" - immediately before, on the eve of. |
Nose | phr | "Put One's Nose In" - poke into or pry into something; esp. a matter that does not concern you. |
Nose | phr | "Telling the Nose" - denoting the counting of persons; esp. those n one side or party. |
Nose | phr | "Through the Nose" - as an organ by which speech-sounds may be produced or affected. |
Nose | phr | "Thrust Ones Nose Into" - to meddle officiously in others matter. |
Nose | phr | "Thumb One's Nose At" - to show one's contempt for someone in authority and to ostentatiously disregard his orders. |
Nose | phr | "To One's Nose" - before one's face. |
Nose | phr | "Under Someone's Nose" - in a person's immediate area of responsibility or in circumstances where he should have known something. 2. within somebody's sight. 3. very close to another person. |
Nose-bleed | n | The plant Milfoil or Yarrow (Achilles millen- folium). 2. the bleeding of the nose. |
Nosebleeding | n | |
Nose-bloody | adj | |
Nose-bone | n | The ethmoid bone: a bone of the skull between the eyes and the roof of the nose. |
Nose-breadth | n | The width or breadth of one's nose. |
Nosed | adj | |
Nosedness | n | |
Nose-dive | n | A steep nose downwards descent by an aircraft. 2. fig. to experience a down-turn in one's endeavors, mood or fortune. 3. a sudden drop or rapid decline. |
Nose drops | n | A street name for heroin; hell's dust; smack. |
Nose-end | n | The end of the human nose. |
Nosegrind | n | |
Nose-hole | n | Nostrils; nose-thirl. |
Noseless | adj | Not having or lacking a nose. |
Noselessness | n | The condition of not having a nose. |
Noselike | adj | |
Nosely | adv | |
Nose-ring | n | A ring fixed in the nose of an animal (esp. a bull) for leading it, or of a person for ornament. |
Nosesmart | adj | |
Nose-thirl | n | Nostril(s); nose-holes. |
Nose-to-tail | adj | Moving or stationary; one close behind another. |
Nose-up | adj | Conceited, clever in one's own opinions; self-wise. 2. with the nose directed upwards. |
Nose-wheel | n | Landing wheel under the nose of an aircraft. |
Nose-wise | adv | In the direction of the nose. |
Nose-wise | adj | Conceited, clever (in one's own opinion). 2. keen-scented. |
Nose-wort | n | Nasturtium, hellebore, sneeze-wort. |
Nosey | adj | Prying, offensively inquisitive or curious in others affairs. 2. tending to snoop or meddle. 3. interfering, meddlesome, snoopy. 4. evil-smelling; emitting a bad odor. |
Nosey-body | n | |
Noseyness | n | Impertinent curiosity, noseyness. |
No-shaped | adj | Amorphous; shapeless. 2. vague, ill-organized. |
No-show | n | An absence, failure to appear, failure to make a schedule appearance. 2. a guest who fails to notify a restaurant, hotel etc., of cancellation of a reservation. 3. one who makes a reservation for an airplane flight, but fails to take up his seat at the time of take-off. 4.someone who shirks their duty. |
Nosily | adv | |
Nosing | vb | To smell, to scent, hence to track or trace out. 2. to touch with the nose; to push the nose into or against, hence to interfere with, to treat insolently. 3. to utter nasally manner, as to "nose" a prayer. 4. to confront, be closely face to face, oropposite to one another; meet. 5. to furnish with a "nose" - as to stair a head. 6. to examine with the nose or sense of smell. 7. to make by advancing the nose or front end; as a train nosed it's way into the station. 8. racing slang: to beat by the length of a nose in a horse race (by a narrow margin). |
Nosing | n | That part of the headboard of a stair which projects over the riser; hence any like projection, as a projecting edge of a molding. |
No-show | n | A person who has a reserved ticket etc., but neither uses it or cancels the reservation. |
No smoking | n | An area designated where smoking smoking is not permitted. |
Nostel | n | OE: nostle - a band or fillet. 2. a short piece of cord, fastened to a net. |
No-strike | n | Part of an industrial agreement where the workers agree not to take strike action. |
Nostril | n | Either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose; anterior naris. 2. Perception; insight; acuteness. [Obs.] |
Nostrilled | adj | |
Not | n | OE: Hnot- close-cropped, short hair. 2. of a willow: polled. 3. of sheep or cattle, hornless. 4. of wheat, barley, awnless, beardless. |
Not | n | A non-existent thing. 2, state of non-existence |
Not | vb | To cut or clip hair short. 2. to prune tree severely. 3. to dehorn sheep, goats etc. 4. of crops to cut back. |
Not | adv | Expression of negation that negates the meaning of the modified verb; as, 'did you put the cat out. No, i didn't. 2. not being; absence of being, non-existing; to no degree. |
Not | phr | "Not a Dry Eye in the House" - (facetious) everybody in the audience or company is crying, or deeply affected. |
Not | phr | "Not a Little" - a good deal, considerably; quite, very. |
Not | phr | "Not a Living Soul" - nobody at all. |
Not | phr | "Not all There" - abnormal, backward, blithering, brainsick, crazed. cretinous, daft, half-witted, mad, moonstruck, unsound, witless, wandering. |
Not | phr | "Not Altogether" - not very, nt particularly. |
Not | phr | "Not Any Longer" - for no further period; no more. |
Not | phr | "Not As Young as One Used To Be" - old or growing old (implication that there is a loss of vigor, good health, good-looks.) |
Not | phr | "Not At All" - there's no need for thanks; don't mention it (in polite reply to thanks). |
Not | phr | "Not at Home" - not prepared to receive visitors or accessible to callers. |
Not | phr | "Not a Little" - |
Not | phr | "Not a One" - |
Not | phr | "Not All Its Cracked Up to Be" - |
Not | phr | "Not All That" - not exceptionally so. |
Not | phr | "Not Always What It Might Be" - imperfect, less suitable, satisfactory, efficient than expected. |
Not | phr | "Not Anything Of the Kind" - not at all what has been supposed, suggested or claimed. |
Not | phr | "Not Any Too" - not very; not sufficiently. |
Not | phr | "Not a Pretty Sight" - |
Not | phr | "Not at All" - |
Not | phr | "Not a Thing" - nothing at all. |
Not | phr | "Not a Word" - no mention to be made; no information to be given, or received. |
Not | phr | "Not Bear to Thing Of" - |
Not | phr | "Not Before Time" - at a time when something is overdue, almost too late; (and) about time too. |
Not | phr | "Not But" - only. |
Not | phr | "Not But What" - all the same; nevertheless. |
Not | phr | "Not By a Long Shot" - not by any small amount; in small degree (formerly from chalking up scores in games: (Not By a Long Chalk) |
Not | phr | "Not By Any Means" - |
Not | phr | "Not Do a Stroke Of Work" - not do any or, an item of, work. |
Not | phr | "Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat" - |
Not | phr | "Not Far to Seek" - easily and quickly found, surmised or ascertained. |
Not | phr | "Not For All the Tea In China" - refuse to do something , no matter how great the reward, compensation. |
Not | phr | "Not For Nothing" not without result or a definable consequences. |
Not | phr | "Not For the First Time" - as has happened sometimes , or often before. |
Not | phr | "Not For The World" - not on any account. 2. not for any reason or purpose. |
Not | phr | "Not Get a Word in Edgeways" - |
Not | phr | "Not Give Somebody the Time of Day" - |
Not | phr | "Not Half" - not nearly (enough). |
Not | phr | "Not Harm a Fly" - be kind and generous in character and always unwilling to cause harm or unhappiness to others. |
Not | phr | "Not Have a Bean" - not have any money at all. |
Not | phr | "Not Have a Hope in Hell" - have no chance at all of success. |
Not | phr | "Not Have a Leg to Stand On" - have no convincing argument to offer in one's defence, or to win others over to one's side. |
Not | phr | "Not Have a Thing to Do" - have nothing to do or complete. |
Not | phr | "Not Have a Word of Truth In It" - be completely untrue. |
Not | phr | "Not If I See You Fist" |
Not | phr | "Not If One Lives to be One Hundred" - never in one's lifetime, however long that proves to be. 2. never in a hundred years. |
Not | phr | "Not I, Not Me" - that for which the subjective or personal is excluded. |
Not | phr | "Not In the Least" - not at all. 2. with considerable importance, notably |
Not | phr | "Not In the Mood" - at odds, averse, differing, disinclined, indisposed, refractory, sulky, sullen, unwilling. |
Not | phr | "Not In the Slightest" - not at all. |
Not | phr | "Not Know Anything About Something But Know What One likes" - have little knowledge about something, not claim to be a judge about something, esp. in the arts and crafts but have one's own tastes and preferences. |
Not | phr | "Not Know One Is Born" - take life for granted without worry or inquiry. 2. live in such happy and comfortable circumstances that one doesn't realize one's good fortune. |
Not | phr | "No Know Somebody Well Enough To Speak" - not know somebody well enough to exchange greetings; conversation to take place. |
Not | phr | "Not Know the Meaning of the Word" - have no understanding, experience of something. |
Not | phr | "Not Know What Hit One" - |
Not | phr | "Not Know What One Is Missing" - not realize how good something one dislikes, or choses not to oneself of, really is. |
Not | phr | "Not Know What to Do with Oneself" - not know hw to occupy one's time. 2. be or feel uncomfortable or embarrassed. |
Not | phr | "Not Know Where One's Next Meal is Coming From" - live without security. 2. live on the edge of poverty, want or starvation. |
Not | phr | "Not Know Where to Look" - be embarrassed, awkwardly self-conscious. |
Not | phr | "Not Know Whether One is Coming or Going" - be confused in, and about what one is doing, esp. because one has too many things to attend to. |
Not | phr | "Not Know Whether One Is On One's Heels Or Head" - be disorientated, confused, over-busy, over-stimulated. |
Not | phr | "Not Know Which End is Up" |
Not | phr | "Not Least" - with considerable importance, notably. |
Not | phr | "Not Leave One's Thoughts" - |
Not | phr | "Not Let the Sun Go Down On One's Wrath" - limit one's anger or bad temper. 2. not carry one's anger or bad temper from one day to another. |
Not | phr | "Not Likely" - no; certainly not; not on your sweet life. |
Not | phr | "Not Long for this World" - likely, or certain to die soon; or have a very short life. |
Not | phr | "Not Much (of Anything)" - not very much. 2. certainly not. 3. (informal, ironically) certainly, very much. |
Not | phr | "Not Much" (Of Something) - lacking skill, ability, value or advantage. 2. somebody, something that is unpleasant only to a minor, or insignificant degree (the implication being that the event is not as disagreeable as might be expected. |
Not | phr | "Not Need Any Telling" - be already willing, ready, or eager to do something which one is told, invited, or urged to do. |
Not | phr | "Not Need to Say/Tell" - somebody is already aware of something being referred to. 2. the information is already known, or probably can be guess. |
Not | phr | "Not On" - |
Not | phr | "Not One Little Bit" - not at all; not in any way. 2. not a bit of it. |
Not | phr | "Not One To Do Something" - not someone who, from character, principles or habit, would belikely to do something. |
Not | phr | "Not One Whit" - in the smallest amount or degree. |
Not | phr | "Not On Your (Sweet) Life" - certainly not, not bloodly likely. |
Not | phr | "Not See Something Like That Again" - something/somebody has been outstandingly good, able, praiseworthy, impressive etc and is unlikely to be equalled by anyone/anything in the future. |
Not | phr | "Not Seen the Likes Of (Somebody/Something) Before" - not have seen etc anything similar previously. 2. not seen anything of its kind that is so good, bad , unusual etc before. |
Not | phr | "Not See the Wood for the Trees" - to be unable to understand, deal with, the main subject, issue, problem etc because one is confused by, or too closely involved in, numerous or complex detail. |
Not | phr | "Not Sleep a Wink" - not get any sleep. 2. get very little sleep |
Not | phr | "Not So Hot" - not very good, healthy, satisfactory. |
Not | phr | "Not Speak Ill/// Of the Dead" -????not say anything slighting, or criticaql about someone who has died, esp. to those who knew him.. Of the Dead" - |
Not | phr | "Not the Less" - nevertheless, nonetheless. |
Not | phr | "Not to be Sneezed at" - not to be despised or contemned. 2. not to be treated lightly. |
Not | phr | "Not to be Outdone" - in order to show oneself as good, or better than, another. |
Not | phr | "Not to Speak Of" - as may be assumed ; and, perhaps; more importantly ; to say nothing of something. |
Not | phr | "Not to Worry" - i'm not going to worry to much; let us not worry. |
Not | phr | "Not Waving but Drowning" - behavior or acting, not indicating (as might be thought) well-being, personal and social assurance, etc but (if rightly interpreted) failure to cope, distress, need for help. |
Not | phr | "Not Wish to Know" - deliberately not seek information about, contact with. |
Not | phr | "Not With It" - asleep, blind to, deaf in, in ignorance of, mindless, napping, out of it, unaware of, unhearing, uninsightful, unknowing, unmindful, unseeing, unsuspecting, unwitting, witless. |
Not | phr | "So Often as Not" - not a bit, not at all, not least, not to mention. |
No-take | n | |
Note | n | Use, usefulness, advantage, noting. 2. one's own good, benefit or profit. 3. employment, occupation, noting, work, as properly pertaining or assigned to a person. 4. the way or practice of work or noting. 5. work as occupying one at a particular time, temporary or permanent work. 6. work of a specific kind. 7. a piece of work. 8. a matter, affair or circumstance; a thing. 9. tenor or purport of a letter. |
Note | n | Milk given by a cow; milk giving by a cow after calving; the period a cow gives milk; the condition of the cow when giving or beginning to give milk. |
Note | vb | To use, to make use of something. 2. to work, follow an occupation. |
Note | phr | "In Note" - in use. |
Notheless | adv | Nevertheless, nonetheless, for all that |
Nothemo | adv | Never the more |
Nother | adv | Not on the one hand: neither, not either. 2. not whether. |
Nothing | n | No thing, not anything. 2. (adv) not at all. |
Nothing | vb | to reduce to nothing. |
Nothing | phr | "A New Nothing" - worthless novelty. |
Nothing | phr | "As Slick as Nothing at All" - promptly, in the twinkling of an eye, |
Nothing | phr | "All for Nothing" - with no result; done in vain. |
Nothing | phr | "All to Nothing" - to full extent. |
Nothing | phr | "Come to Nothing" - fail completely in life or vacation. 2. to have no positive result; come to nought; break down or fail. |
Nothing | phr | "For Nothing" - for free or no cost. 2. by no means, on no account, for no consideration. |
Nothing | phr | "Good for Nothing" - worthless. |
Nothing | phr | "Have Nothing On" - be without clothes, bare, naked. 2. in one's nothings. |
Nothing | phr | "Have Nothing On" - I have nothing to do; i am free at the moment. |
Nothing | phr | "Have Nothing on Somebody" - have no proof of someone's wrongdoings or guilt. |
Nothing | phr | "It was Nothing" - no thanks needed or required. |
Nothing | phr | "Like Nothing On Earth" - to or in a superlative degree. 2. strange, ugly. |
Nothing | phr | "Make Nothing Of (it)" - not make a fuss of, make light of. 2. very easy to do; there is no difficulty involved. 3. fail to understand |
Nothing | phr | "Make Nothing of Oneself" - fail, not succeed in life generally. |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing But" - used to typify or theorize in an attempt to reduce, simplify or explain concept in such a way that seem to accord with the theory prepounded. |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing But (something)" - only something; 'we have heard nothing but complaints all day'. |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing Can Be Farther From One's Mind" - something previously mentioned, or to be defined, is an opinion, wish, intention one does not have. |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing Doing" - nothing happening, with no result. 2. no prospect of success or agreement. 3. nothing is happening. 4. no other action is possible or suitable in the circumstances. |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing Else But" - no other outcome or result is likely; as, 'all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas'. |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing For it But" - only possible way of dealing with a situation. |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing if Not Something" - |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing like" - not like or similar in any way. 2. far from; not at all; nowhere near. |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing Loath to Do" - (facetious) very willingly, eagerly. |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing More Or Less Than" - exactly, unequivocally; merely, just. |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing of the Kind" - another, away off, certainty not, different thing, far from it, for other, no such thing, not a bit, not so, nothing like, quite the contrary, way off. 2. not anything of the kind; not at all what has been supposed, suggested or claimed. |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing Short of" - the same as, like, similar to. 2. completely, nearly. 4. nothing except something(can/will do something). |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing So" - not in that way or manner. |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing to do With (Somebody)" - not be of somebody's concern. |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing to See" - |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing to Sneeze At" - |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing To Write Home About" - of a person or thing: not very good, just average or mediocre |
Nothing | phr | "Nothing Worthy of " - of no value |
Nothing | phr | "Say Nothing of" - in addition to. |
Nothing | phr | "Stop Short of Nothing" - do anything however risky or daring. |
Nothing | phr | "That Nothing New" - I already know that; i am aware of that or the situation. |
Nothing | phr | "There's Nothing Doing" - no; one doesn't, and won't agree to do what is requested, suggested or ordered. |
Nothing | phr | "There's Nothing for it" - there no other possible course of action or alternatives. |
Nothing | phr | "There is Nothing For It But" - denoting absence of an alternative course. |
Nothing | phr | "There Nothing in It" - it's not true; there's no truth in it. 2. of no consequence for no-one. |
Nothing | phr | "There's Nothing to It" - it's easy, simple; uncomplicated. |
Nothing | phr | "Thing of Nothing" - of no account; insignificant; meaningless; insipid, dull; no existent thing. |
Nothing | phr | "Think Nothing of Doing it" - do something without consideration of the cost financially or the outcome personally. |
Nothing | phr | "Think nothing of it" - it is unimportant. |
Nothing | phr | "To Nothing" - denoting the final point, stage or state of the process of destruction, dissolution. |
Nothing-but | n | Used to typify or theorize in an attempt to reduce, simplify or explain a concept in such a way that they seem to accord with the theory propounded. |
Nothing-doing | n | |
Nothingless | n | State of insignificance, non-existent, nullity, voidness, vacuity, nihility; emptiness, inanity, nirvana, non-beingness, senselessness, tabula rasa. 2. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk, malarkey, idle words. 3. state of being no value; a thing of no value. |
Nothing-like | adj | Not similar in any way. |
Nothingly | adv | Of non value or effect. |
Nothingy | adj | Of no value or importance. |
Nothing-like | adj | Not similar in any way. |
Nothingness | n | Non-existence, that which is non-existent. 2. condition or state of being non-existent or worthlessness. 3. cessation of life or consciousness. 4. the worthlessness or vanity of something. 5. a thing which has no value; the condition of being worthless. 6. utter insignificance or unimportant. 7. a non-existent thing. |
Nothings | phr | "In One's Nothings" - naked, without clothing, bare. |
Nothing-does | n | Those who do nothing. 2. layabouts and droouts. |
Nothings | n | "Sweet nothings" - intimate whisperings between lovers. |
Nothing-saying | n | A period of silence or quietness. |
Nothing-worth | adj | Of no value. |
Nothingy | adj | Of no value or importance. |
No-thoroughfare | n | A way, lane, closure (at one end); a dead-end street; cul-de-sac. |
No-time | n | A time which does not exist. 2. not time at all. 3. a very short time. |
Not-life | n | Inaminate matter, esp. as constrasted with that which contains life. |
Notness | n | The quality or state of not accepting something. 2. something negative; negation. |
Not-seeing | n | State of not seeing or being unable to discern. |
Not-self | n | That which is other than the self. 2. something different from the conscious self. 3. the non-ego. |
Not-the-less | adv | Nevertheless, nonetheless, for all that. |
Not-thereness | n | The state of being absence or preoccupied. |
Notwithstanding | adv | All the same; nevertheless. 2. not that withstanding. 3. nought with standing. |
Notwithstanding | prp | In spite of; without prevention by. |
Nothwithstanding | conj | Although. |
Nought | n | Nothing; something which does not exist. 2. a thing or person of no worth or value; nil. 2. not any quantity of number; zero the score of no points in a game. 4. the figure or character representing or having the shape of, zero. |
Nought | vb | To abase or set to nought. 2. to efface oneself. |
Nought | adj | Good-for-nothing, worthless, wicked, immoral. |
Nought | adv | To no extent, in no way, not at all. |
Nought | prn | Nothing, zero. |
Nought | phr | "A Thing Of Nought" - a mere nothing. |
Nought | phr | 'At Nought Feet" - very close to the ground. |
Nought | phr | "Come to Nought" - come to nothing, achieve little. |
Nought | phr | "Do Nought" - do nothing; not act. 2. do wrongly; act immorally. |
Nought | phr | "For Nought" - for nothing; for little consequence. 2. nevertheless. |
Nought | phr | "Put to Nought" - render of little significance. |
Nought | phr | "Think Nought Of" - disregard. |
Nought-fearing | adj | Frightened by nothing. 2. without fear; fearless. |
Noughtihood | n | Wickedness, evil. |
Noughtily | adv | Badly behaved, evil or bad of manner, noughtly. |
Noughtiness | n | Wickedness, naughtiness, nothingness, worthless, badness, noughthood. |
Noughting | n | A worthless or insignificant person. 2. depreciation, scorn, effacement. |
Nougthingly | adv | Wickedly, wrongly, badly, poorly |
Noughtly | adv | Of actions: abject, worthless, vile, bad or in an evil manner. 2. of things: good-for-nothing, worthless, of little, insignificant, trivial. 3. in a bad condition; of a bad tone. |
Noughtness | n | Nothingness, worthlessness, vileness, wickedness |
Nought-worth | adj | Unimportant, of absolutely no value. |
Noughty | adj | Worthless or insignificant. |
Nouther | adv | Neither of two persons. |
Nouther-where | adv | No where. |
Now | adv | At the present time or nowthe; in these times, nowadays. ???? |
Now | phr | "As Now" - at this time, just now. |
Now | phr | "Every Now and Then" - occasionally. |
Now | phr | "From Now On Forth" - henceforth; from now on. |
Now | phr | "Now and Again" - now and then, here and there, occasionally, on occasions, once in a while; at times, from time to time. |
Now | phr | "Now and Now" - again and again; repeatedly. |
Now | phr | "Now and Then" - at one time or another; indefinitely, occasionally, not often, at irregular intervals. |
Now | phr | "Now at Erst" - at this present time. |
Now | phr | "Now by Dawe" - nowadays. |
Now | phr | "Now I Have Seen Everything" - comment on an ocasion of witnessing something very unusual or ludicrous (the implication being being thst nothing the speaker might see in the future woul be sufficiently extraordinary to surprise him or her). |
Now | phr | "Now It Can Be Told" - designates of a book, story, etc which reveals previously classified or unknown facts. 2. the time for official, tactical, respectful, or deferential secrecy or concealment is over. |
Now | phr | "Now It is Time for All Good Women/Men To Speak/Stand Up" - in times of evil doing one must stand/ speak up for what is good. |
Now | phr | "Now Then" - replaces, or precedes, a statement that checks, warns or reproves. 2. follws a defiant statement of opinion or intention; so there. 3. a neutral conversation filler in any position, sommetimes indicating a momentary pause for though, but often just a verbal habit. |
Now | phr | "Now, Now" - expression of sympathy or rebuke. |
Now | phr | "Now of Late" - recently. |
Now | phr | "Now or Never" - this is the time to do something. 2. something must be done, decided upon immediately or all hope or opportunity of doing something later must be give up. |
Now | phr | "Now What" - what is concerning you now (said with some annoyance and impatiently). |
Now | phr | "Now You See It, Now You Don't" - one is probably being misled. 2. one can't be sure something is so but one had better be careful and watcchful (of Tricksters at fairs. etc) who by sleight of hand make it difficult for customers to identify which of the three thimbles have a pea under it) |
Now | phr | "Now You're Talking" - what you say or suggest is something I agree with, approve. |
Nowadays | n | The present day, in these times, today. 2. now-a-days. |
Now-a-nights | n | The present night, in these times, tonight. |
Nower | adv | No where nigh or near. |
Now-being | adj | Existing presently; alive; extant. |
Now-fallen | adj | Of a thing, such as a leaf: recently or just fallen. 2. of a person (soldier): recently killed in battle. |
Now-forgotten | adj | No longer remembered or thought of. |
No-what | n | Nothing. |
No whence | adv | From no place. |
No where | adv | In or at no place, not anywhere, to no place. 2. in no part or passage of a book; ie. in the work or author's writing. 3. to be badly beaten in a race, contest; to be hopelessly out of the running. |
Nowhere | n | A non-existent place; an absence of place. 5. a remote or inaccessible place, as the 'middle of now-where. 6. a dull person, place or thing. |
Nowhere | adj | Insignificant, unsatisfactory, dull, non-existing. |
Nowhere | adv | "Get no-where" - make no progress, get no satisfactory outcome. |
Nowhere | phr | "Middle of Nowhere" - a remote or inaccessible place. |
Nowhere | phr | "Nowhere Near" - not ll, much less than or different from; nothing like. |
Nowhere | phr | "Nowhere to be Seen" - not visible, absent, gone, lost, disappeared etc. |
Nowhereness | n | State or quality of being no-where, remote, inaccessible place, dull,insignificant, a sluumy nowhere-ness. |
No while | adv | For no space of time. |
No whit | adv | Also "no wight" -- not at all, not the least, a small amount in time or distance. |
No whither | adv | Not in any direction; at no direction; no where. |
No-win | adj | Certain to end in failure and disappointment, as opposed to a "win-win" situation. |
No wither | adv | To no place, nowhere. |
No-witherwards | adv | To no-where; to no place or in no direction. |
No-win | adj | Of a struggle, contest, situation that cannot be won. |
No-wise | adv | In way or manner: not at all. |
Nowness | n | The quality of being always present. 2. the quality of taking place at the present time. |
Nowt | n | Cattle, cows, oxen, bullock. 2. a person - stupid or nowt-headed, and coarse and clumsy or nowt-footed. |
Nowt-geld | n | Ancient tax levied on cattle and bovine-type beasts. |
Nowthe | adv | Now, at this present moment. |
N'th | adj | Representing a ordinal equivalent of "n". 2. infinitely or indefinitely large or small, as in "raised to the "nth" degree. 3. with greatt precision; extremely; to an infinite extent. |