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Letter "C" » clap
«In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch / Is offering too little and asking too much. / The French are with equal advantage content, / So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.»
Author: George Canning
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
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bottoms, cent, clap, clap on, the Dutch
«It takes two hands to clap.»
Author: Jiang Zemin
| About:
Applause
| Keywords:
clap, clapped, clapping, claps, clap on, two-handed
«Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.»
«Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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Irony
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blessed with, clap, clapping, extinguisher, irony, unhappily, vein
«Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.»
«Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!»
«For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.»
«I clap thy teeth upon thy teeth, and also thy jaw upon thy jaw; I press thy tongue against thy tongue, and close up, O serpent, thy mouth.»
«I met children who lost their daddies and I met a lot of people who survived. This is the first time they've had a chance to clap their hands and shout and dance. This is a great gift to them.»
«An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress»
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