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singing without instrumental accompaniment

set her cap Idiom, Proverb

a feather in your cap

an honor, a credit to you, chalk one up for you Because you are Karen's teacher, her award is a feather in your cap.

captain of industry

a top corporation officer The president of our company was a captain of industry and after he retired he was appointed to many government boards.

capture the imagination

cause a person to imagine a scene or character The story of Jacob Two-Two will capture the kids' imagination.

feather in your cap

(See a feather in your cap)

narrow escape

an escape with no chance of error He had a narrow escape when he almost fell from his bicycle.

bust a cap

1. to fire a bullet
2. to inject a shot of heroin

cap

1. bullet;"I'm a pop a cap in him" -- Jules in the movie "Pulp Fiction"
2. cranium, top of the skull
3. crack
4. a hat
5. to shoot

cap'n

captain

captain geech

a very bad band; a looser band;"That bands like captain geech"

captain of team nasty

the "leader" of a group of unattractive males/females."I saw you brought home captain of team nasty last night"

set (one's) cap at (someone)

dated To try to attract, secure, or win addition as a adventurous accomplice or spouse. Said abnormally (though not exclusively) of a woman in following of a bachelor. Well, if he insists on actual so inhospitable, again I shall artlessly set my cap at a man with a greater faculty of agreeableness and decency. The ladies of this boondocks shall all be ambience their caps at Mr. Rutherford, now that his bequest has larboard him absolutely wealthy. But don't you acquisition it rather cheap for a man of his age and base to set his cap at a babe who's almost of voting age?Learn more: cap, set

set her cap

A woman's assurance to allure a accurate man. In the canicule back women's accoutrements included arch coverings, a woman who capital to address to a man would abrasion her best bonnet. The appearance was wellknown in the 18th century, back Jane Austen acclimated it in Faculty and Sensibility: “I abominate every commonplace byword by which wit is intended; and ‘setting one's cap at a man,' or ‘making a conquest,' are the best abhorrent of all.”Learn more: cap, set

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