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*an A for effort Fig. acknowledgement for having tried A
to do something, even if it was not essful. (*Typically:
get ~; give someone ~.) ᮀ The plan didn’t work, but
I’ll give you an A for effort for trying. B
A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. Go to You
got to do what you got to do. C
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. Prov. If you
come in, be prepared for the worst. (Describes a hopeless D
situation or one somehow similar to hell. Often used joc-
ularly. This is the English translation of the words on the E
gate of Hell in Dante’s Inferno.) ᮀ This is our cafeteria. Aa
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here!
abandon oneself to something to yield to forts or F
delights of something. ᮀ The children abandoned them-
selves to the delights of the warm summer day.
ᮀ G
ᮀ can.) We thought he could handle the new account, but
abandon ship 1. Lit. to leave a sinking ship. The cap- he is simply not able to cut it.
tain ordered the crew and passengers to abandon ship. H
2. Fig. to leave a failing enterprise. ᮀ A lot of the younger able to do something to have the strength or skill to do
people are abandoning ship because they can get jobs else- something. (Able to can be replaced with can.) ᮀ Are you
where easily. able to carry those bags by yourself? I
abandon someone or something to someone or something to able to do something blindfolded and able to do some-
leave a person, living creature, or thing to the care of thing standing on one’s head Fig. able to do something J
someone or something; to give up someone or something very easily, possibly without even looking. (Able to can be
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to someone or something. (Usually with the thought that replaced with can.) Bill boasted that he could pass his K
the abandoned person or thing will not receive the best driver’s test blindfolded.
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of care.) They had to abandon the dogs to the storm. able to do something standing on one’s head