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Brewer's: Nose Out of Joint

To put one's nose out of joint is to supplant a person in another's good graces. To put another person's nose where yours is now. There is a good French locution, “Lui couper l'herbe sous…

Brewer's: Joint

The times are out of joint. The times are disquiet and unruly. If the body is out of joint it cannot move easily, and so is it with the body corporate Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…

Joint Reckoning

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Anatomy and
Physiology: The Joints

The JointsAnatomy and PhysiologyThe JointsTypes of JointsHinges, Pivots, and Saddles … Oh My!The Dancer's AlphabetDon't Wait. Rotate! Now that you've learned all 206 bones, it's time to get a…

Anatomy and
Physiology: Types of Joints

Types of JointsAnatomy and PhysiologyThe JointsTypes of JointsHinges, Pivots, and Saddles … Oh My!The Dancer's AlphabetDon't Wait. Rotate! Any place where two bones meet is called an articulation…

Dick, Philip K.

(Encyclopedia) Dick, Philip K. (Philip Kindred Dick), 1928–82, American science-fiction writer, b. Chicago. Dick often wrote of the psychological states of individuals caught in altered realities…

Joint Chiefs of Staff

(Encyclopedia) Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. statutory agency, created in 1949 within the Dept. of Defense. The chairman is the principal military adviser to the President, the National Security…

Brewer's: Out and Out

Incomparably, by far, or beyond measure; as, “He was out and out the best man.” “It is an out-and-outer” means nothing can exceed it. It is the word utter, the Anglo-Saxon útaerre.…

Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar

(Encyclopedia) Bernhard of Saxe-WeimarBernhard of Saxe-Weimarsăksˈ–wīˈmär, zäksˈə-vīˈmär [key], 1604–39, Protestant general in the Thirty Years War, duke of Weimar. Under Ernst von Mansfeld and the…