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" " This phrase means "that's fine" in English.

Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration, properly deployed, has more impact than a lot.

This legal phrase means that the minimum price demanded by the owner consigning the work of art, which remains undisclosed, will be paid to the consignor whether the work sells or not.

In layperson's language, this strange phrase means that the only justifiable purpose of handing a business a cheque is to get it to do something it wouldn't otherwise do.

But as much as Dr. Butler would have cheered an aging Beatle onstage, his colleagues said he would have also cautioned against embracing the opposite stereotype — the idea that "aging successfully," in his phrase, means that you have to be banging on drums in front of thousands — or still be acting like you did at 22 or 42.

"This phrase means that if our civilians are attacked by you, we are not going to respond in proportion but will use all means we have to cause you such damage that you will think twice in the future," said Giora Eiland, a former national security adviser.

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This does not, in Theresa May's desperately crass phrase, mean that they are "citizens of nowhere".

Analysts said this turn of phrase meant that the administration would accept a weaker dollar over all, and that it would like the Japanese to allow the yen to find its own value.

Unexpectedly, though, the 9th is the biggest disappointment, curiously underpowered and rather routine, while the way in which Rattle, nowadays, tends to mould and overmanicure phrases means that even the Pastoral Symphony seems less spontaneous, and much more knowing than it might.

"Male homosexuality is evolutionarily maladaptive," he said, noting that the phrase means only that genes favoring homosexuality cannot be favored by evolution if fewer such genes reach the next generation.

These colorful ghetto code phrases mean that one must never intervene in a fight and never report crimes to the police.

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