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{
"ref": "1987 May 3, Thomas J. Knudson, \"Montana Grapples with High Worker Insurance,\" New York Times (retrieved 4 June 2015)",
"text": "\"One Idaho logger told my sons, ‘We're stealing your lunch,’\" said Connie M. Wood, owner of the Topper Wood Trucking Company in Libby. \"That seems to say it all.\""
},
{
"ref": "2011 Jan. 20, James Poniewozik, \"The Onion's New Fake News Show,\" Time (retrieved 4 June 2015)",
"text": "The show's slogan says it all: \"News without mercy.\""
}
],
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"To express the essential characteristics of a person, thing, or situation in a concise, well-crafted turn of phrase or in some other pithy manner."
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"(idiomatic) To express the essential characteristics of a person, thing, or situation in a concise, well-crafted turn of phrase or in some other pithy manner."
],
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"_dis1": "85 15",
"sense": "express essential characteristics concisely",
"word": "nail it"
}
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"_dis1": "86 14",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to sum up the characteristics of someone or thing in a pithy manner.",
"word": "eigentlich alles gesagt sein mit"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 14",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to sum up the characteristics of someone or thing in a pithy manner.",
"word": "kua oti te ao"
}
]
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"_dis1": "37 63",
"word": "SSIA"
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"ref": "2004 Feb. 13, Denise Pearson, \"And they say romance is dead...,\" Guardian (UK) (retrieved 4 June 2015)",
"text": "The look on his face said it all. He was terrified!"
},
{
"ref": "2015 May 30, Helen Carson, \"Pic of the week: Downer... Rory struggles on home soil,\" Belfast Telegraph (retrieved 4 June 2015)",
"text": "Rory McIlroy looked downcast . . . his body language saying it all, head down and shoulders slumped, he is a picture of bitter disappointment."
}
],
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"To convey information implicitly in a non-verbal way."
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"(idiomatic) To convey information implicitly in a non-verbal way."
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"word": "say no more"
}
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"_dis1": "8 92",
"sense": "convey information implicitly",
"word": "speak volumes"
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"_dis1": "7 93",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to convey information implicitly and non-verbally.",
"word": "boekdelen spreken"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 93",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to convey information implicitly and non-verbally.",
"word": "en dire long"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 93",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to convey information implicitly and non-verbally.",
"word": "eine eindeutige Sprache sprechen"
},
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"_dis1": "7 93",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to convey information implicitly and non-verbally.",
"word": "Bände sprechen"
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"word": "say it all"
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"ref": "1987 May 3, Thomas J. Knudson, \"Montana Grapples with High Worker Insurance,\" New York Times (retrieved 4 June 2015)",
"text": "\"One Idaho logger told my sons, ‘We're stealing your lunch,’\" said Connie M. Wood, owner of the Topper Wood Trucking Company in Libby. \"That seems to say it all.\""
},
{
"ref": "2011 Jan. 20, James Poniewozik, \"The Onion's New Fake News Show,\" Time (retrieved 4 June 2015)",
"text": "The show's slogan says it all: \"News without mercy.\""
}
],
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"To express the essential characteristics of a person, thing, or situation in a concise, well-crafted turn of phrase or in some other pithy manner."
],
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"(idiomatic) To express the essential characteristics of a person, thing, or situation in a concise, well-crafted turn of phrase or in some other pithy manner."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
},
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{
"ref": "2004 Feb. 13, Denise Pearson, \"And they say romance is dead...,\" Guardian (UK) (retrieved 4 June 2015)",
"text": "The look on his face said it all. He was terrified!"
},
{
"ref": "2015 May 30, Helen Carson, \"Pic of the week: Downer... Rory struggles on home soil,\" Belfast Telegraph (retrieved 4 June 2015)",
"text": "Rory McIlroy looked downcast . . . his body language saying it all, head down and shoulders slumped, he is a picture of bitter disappointment."
}
],
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"To convey information implicitly in a non-verbal way."
],
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"(idiomatic) To convey information implicitly in a non-verbal way."
],
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"idiomatic"
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}
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"sense": "express essential characteristics concisely",
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},
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"sense": "convey information implicitly",
"word": "speak volumes"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to sum up the characteristics of someone or thing in a pithy manner.",
"word": "eigentlich alles gesagt sein mit"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to sum up the characteristics of someone or thing in a pithy manner.",
"word": "kua oti te ao"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to convey information implicitly and non-verbally.",
"word": "boekdelen spreken"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to convey information implicitly and non-verbally.",
"word": "en dire long"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to convey information implicitly and non-verbally.",
"word": "eine eindeutige Sprache sprechen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to convey information implicitly and non-verbally.",
"word": "Bände sprechen"
}
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"William Safire"
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"word": "say it all"
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