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| Albatross around one's neck |
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| The school or university from which one graduated; school official song. |
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| Between a rock and a hard place |
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| faced with two equally dangerous or difficult choices or situations. |
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| Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth |
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| Born into a wealthy family |
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| "That's life" ; an expression used to play down some minor disappointments. |
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from the story of Faust who traded his soul for knowledge. Willing to sacrifice anything to satisfy a limitless desire for knowledge or power.
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| That little something; a quality that eludes description. "I don't know what" |
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| Acronym for "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" member of what many consider to be the most privileged and influential group in American Society. |
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| Something designed to divert an opponents attention from the central issue |
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| If there's method in someone's madness, they do things in a strange and unorthodox way, but manage to get results. |
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