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| Refers to a person's area of particular vulnerability. | ||
| Used to describe someone's insistence on being repaid, even if the repayment will destroy or harm the debtor. | ||
| Refers to something that cannot be interfered with or harmed in any way. | ||
| To take an irreversible step, often involving some danger. | ||
| To offer something precious to someone or a group of people,unable to appreciate the value of what they are being given. | ||
| This phrase describes something that occurs very rarely. | ||
| Refer to such an attitude of narrow-minded prudishness. | ||
| To show false sympathy for someone. | ||
| Can refer to anything that temps a person from safety and toward a destructive path. | ||
| To issue a stern warning that if unacceptable behavior does not ease, severe consequences will follow. | ||
| Refers to payment received for an act of treachery. | ||
| Refers to a supposed friend's treachery. | ||
| Any extremely complex problem. | ||
| A person who resides here is secluded or protected from the real world and thus out of touch with reality. | ||
| The message of this proverb is that something which appears valuable on the outside, may in fact be less valuable. Appearances can be deceptive. | ||
| This phrase refers to a great, tumultuous, and passionate uproar that actually is unimportant or meaningless. | ||
| To fail or be destroyed because of lack of caution or excessive ambition. | ||
| Refers to policies designed to prevent unrest by keeping people happy and thus deflecting concern about troubling issues. | ||
| Any surprising turn of events that suddenly makes things turn out all right, especially in a literary work. Often considered to be an unsatisfying and overly convenient way to end a story. | ||
| Offered something desirable which is then withheld. | ||
| While people may be aware of the necessity of some unpleasant realities, such as prisons, landfills, or chemical plants, they insist that these places be located away from where they live. | ||
| To meet this is to suffer an ultimate, decisive defeat. | ||
| Something, especially a place or condition believed to promise final satisfaction or realization of hopes. | ||
| An ambitious person who gives up moral integrity to obtain power and success. | ||
| A Load from which some unfortunate person has to carry and cannot escape. | ||
| A style characterized by incongruous imagery through unnatural and unusual combination and settings. | ||
| A term describing times as happy, joyful, and carefree. | ||
| Used as a metaphor in reference to people who go along unquestioningly with popular opinion, dangerous situations, or fatal consequences. | ||
| A representation of a feud between two opposing families or forces. | ||
| A spiritual journey to a destination that has many challenging locations that represent temptations, trials, and tribulations along the path. | ||
| Refers to a very noble and chivalrous man. | ||
| Synonymous with "turncoat", this refers to switching sides or deserting one's original side. |
