Diet, he says, is a scientific word that quite literally means what food you put into your body each day.
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Shanzhai, which literally means "mountain fortress" and implies banditry and lack of state control, refers to China's vast array of name-brand knockoffs.
"The word 'jihad' literally means struggle, struggle for a good cause, " said Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Democracy literally means 'rule by the people' - in practice not by the whole people (for unanimity is rare) but by a majority of the people.
To provide an even clearer historical perspective, consider this: The name "Francesco" literally means "somebody from France" and only became popular in the 13th century because St.
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Personally, I think blue jeans on an older man look ridiculous the French call it vieux jeune homme, which literally means "old young guy" but that's a separate issue.
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Beit Oren, which literally means "home of the pine", was one of the first to open a guest house in 1942, and it soon became a popular stay for Europeans looking to escape the harsh summer heat in other parts of the country.
If they're right, this means the cancer is literally jumping from one animal to the other, much like a parasite.
That makes Crook County (pop. 13, 500) the nation's last bellwether county. (Bellwether, literally, means the lead sheep in a flock.) The nation lost its other remaining perfect prognosticator in 1984, when Walter Mondale edged Reagan by 303 votes in Iowa's Palo Alto County.
Kitanai (literally dirty) means nasty, mean and calculating.
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The value of a meeting as opposed to a letter or phone call is so that you can almost literally see what the other person means, not just hear what they say.
It means that researchers have found that some earthly bacteria that live in literally poisonous environments are adapted to find the presence of arsenic dramatically less lethal, and that they can even incorporate arsenic into their routine, familiar chemistry.
" And that means if Republicans win the House but lose key governors' races, "Democrats could literally draw themselves back into power.
The dream of the German people, which had seemed unrealizable, became a reality in literally a few months, and one can understand the determination of Chancellor Helmut Kohl not to spare means for achieving the sacred goal.
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