Okay, let me cite an excerpt from a joke (forgive me, but it's a bit dirty ): [...] "Well, teach, I've got a question for you... There are 3 women that come out of an ice-cream parlor, one is biting her ice-cream cone, one is licking i...
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Taken aback - the meaning and origin of this phrase. ... 'Taken aback' is an allusion to something that is startling enough to make us jump back in surprise. The first to be 'taken aback' were not people though but ships. The sails of a ship are said to be 'aback' when the wind blows them flat against the masts and spars...
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chapter 12 then drops back to 1906. Many expulsions took place after 1923, however, some as recently as ... Besides violating accepted rules of scholarly citation, Jaspin's more insular approach also leads him to violate standards common in journalism, or so I infer from Jerome Week's article, "Taken Aback, Taken Aback."
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But now that Obama has actually taken back America, the activists at this year's gathering feel a bit like the dog that finally caught up with the car. Organizers changed the name from Take Back America to America's Future Now, but that didn't prevent a sharp decline in participation.
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Cancellation of Palm Springs project, comes as a surprise to its friendly rival Nakheel, which is cu ... The Managing Director of the Palm Jebel Ali, Marwan Al Qamzi, said that Nakheel was taken aback by Damacs decision, as Nakheel learned it through the media.
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I guessI was taken aback. I was too scared of him loving me that much so fast. He didn't hide it and I was afraid of it. When push came to shove and he asked me out, I said no. I don't know why. I don't know what I was so afraid of. ... apparently I was cheating on him the whole time and I was sneaking around his back.
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Academy award-winning independent animator and cult favourite Bill Plympton is back with a new feature film. Arguably his most provocative work to date (which is really saying something), Idiots and Angels is the tale of a boorish businessman who awakens one day to find angel wings growing out of his back.
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"There was reaction from some of our base who were taken aback by it and thought he was undermining the peace process," said Americans for Peace Now spokesman Ori Nir, who described his organization as "gratified" by the clarified position which seems to follow APN's policy that sovereignty of Jerusalem could be shared...
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Find Synonym of taken aback and Antonym of taken aback at Thesaurus.com, Synonym, Synonyms, Thesaurus, Synonym Dictionary, Synonyms Dictionary, Antonym, Antonyms, Antonym Dictionary, Antonyms Dictionary ... amazed, startled, taken aback ... Taken back or taken...
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