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Good proverbs

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If you say you will love a person all your life, is saying a candle will continue to burn all your life

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Back to the drawing board.

Start again on a new design-after a failure of an earlier attempt.
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Back room boy.

One who works in anonymity in an organization while others take on more public roles.
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Bring home the bacon.

To earn money, especially money for ones family,to be successful,especially financially successful.
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In someone's bad books.

To be in disgrace or out of favour.
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A bad egg.

Some one or something that disappoints expectations.
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Bad hair day.

A day on which one's hair seems unmanageable.Also extended to mean a day when everything seems wrong.
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The balance of power.

The distribution of power between nations in such a way that no single state has dominance over the others.
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The balance of trade.

The difference between the value of the imports and exports that a nation makes.
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Bale out/Bail out

Various meanings,including making an emergency parachute escape from an aeroplane and ladling water from a boat.
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Ball and chain.

A 20 th century slang term,meaning wife.
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Bang on about.

Talk repetitively and boringly about something.
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Baptism of fire.

An ordeal or martyrdom.More recently,a soldier's first experience of battle.
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Would n't touch with a barge pole.

said of something or some one so unappealing that one would n't want to approach near.
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Barking up the wrong tree.

Making a mistake or a false assumption in something you are trying to achieve.
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Bated breath.

Breathing that is subdued because of some emotion or difficulty.
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Bean counter.

A disparaging term for an accountant, or anyone who one who is excessively concerned with statistical records or accounts.
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Beast with two backs.

Partners engaged in sexual intercourse.
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Beat around the bush.

Prevaricate and avoid coming to the point.
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Beat swords into ploughshares.

Turn to peaceful pursuits and away from war.
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The living daylights.

A persons eyes,more recently,the life force or consciousness.
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