phi イディオム

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Sophie's choice

choosing between the death of you or your child He was facing a Sophie's choice: Lose his son or lose his own life.

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uphill battle

difficult work, rough going, tough sledding We've asked the government to protect children's rights, but it's an uphill battle all the way.

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Philly

Philadelphia. Home of Schoolly D., Da Youngstas, The Fresh Prince, Tuff Crew, The Roots, DJ Ghetto, Bahamadia

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Fight an uphill battle

When you fight an uphill battle, you have to struggle against very unfavourable circumstances.

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Slower than molasses going uphill in January

(USA) To move extremely slowly. Molasses drips slowly anyway but add January cold and gravity, dripping uphill would be an impossibility, thereby making the molasses move very slowly indeed!

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dolphin

dolphin
the Dolphin
the constellation Delphinus

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Philadelphia lawyer

Philadelphia lawyer
A shrewd attorney, adept at dealing with legal technicalities, as in It would take a Philadelphia lawyer to get him off. This expression dates from the late 1700s and, as lexicographer Richard H. Thornton observed: “Why members of the Philadelphia bar should be credited with superhuman sagacity has never been satisfactorily explained.”