lose — W1S1 [lu:z] v past tense and past participle lost [lɔst US lo:st] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(stop having attitude/quality etc)¦ 2¦(not win)¦ 3¦(cannot find something)¦ 4¦(stop having something)¦ 5¦(death)¦ 6¦(money)¦ 7 have nothing to lose 8¦(time)¦ … Dictionary of contemporary English
lose sleep over someone — lose sleep (over (someone/something)) to be worried and unable to relax because of something. An asteroid could hit the earth, but it s not something you should lose sleep over … New idioms dictionary
lose sleep over something — lose sleep (over (someone/something)) to be worried and unable to relax because of something. An asteroid could hit the earth, but it s not something you should lose sleep over … New idioms dictionary
lose sleep over — lose sleep (over (someone/something)) to be worried and unable to relax because of something. An asteroid could hit the earth, but it s not something you should lose sleep over … New idioms dictionary
lose sleep — (over (someone/something)) to be worried and unable to relax because of something. An asteroid could hit the earth, but it s not something you should lose sleep over … New idioms dictionary
Lose — (l[=oo]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lost} (l[o^]st; 115) p. pr. & vb. n. {Losing} (l[=oo]z [i^]ng).] [OE. losien to loose, be lost, lose, AS. losian to become loose; akin to OE. leosen to lose, p. p. loren, lorn, AS. le[ o]san, p. p. loren (in comp.) … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
You shall not steal — is one of the Ten Commandments,[1] of the Torah (the Pentateuch), which are widely understood as moral imperatives by legal scholars, Jewish scholars, Catholic scholars, and Post Reformation scholars.[2] Though usually understood to prohibit the… … Wikipedia
you pays your money and you takes your chances — You pays your money and you takes your chances means that when you do something that involves a risk, you cannot control the outcome, so you may win or lose and should accept that … The small dictionary of idiomes
lose out (on something) — ˌlose ˈout (on sth) derived (informal) to not get sth you wanted or feel you should have • While the stores make big profits, it s the customer who loses out. Main entry: ↑losederived … Useful english dictionary
you'd better believe it — you’d better believe it spoken phrase used for telling someone that something is definitely true and that they should take it seriously ‘They said I could lose my job over this.’ ‘You’d better believe it.’ Thesaurus: ways of emphasizing that… … Useful english dictionary