corner : Idioms & Phrases

• noun area reserved for persons leading the responsive `amens'
  

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• noun a street corner that you cannot see around as you are driving
  

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By"-cor`ner noun

Definitions

1. A private corner.

   Britain being a by-corner, out of the road of the world. Fuller.

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• adjective satellite slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line
  cater-cornered; cata-cornered; catty-cornered; catty-corner; kitty-corner; catacorner; catercorner.
  
  • set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot

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• adjective satellite slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line
  cater-cornered; cata-cornered; catty-cornered; catty-corner; kitty-corner; catacorner; catercorner.
  
  • set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot

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Ca"ter-cor"nered adjective

Etymology

Cf. Cater to cut diagonally.

Definitions

1. Diagonal. Colloq.

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• adjective satellite slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line
  cater-cornered; cata-cornered; catty-cornered; catty-corner; kitty-corner; catacorner; catercorner.
  
  • set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot

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• adjective satellite slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line
  cater-cornered; cata-cornered; catty-cornered; catty-corner; kitty-corner; catacorner; catercorner.
  
  • set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot

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• noun a corner by a fireplace
  inglenook.
  

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• the space between the sides of the fireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside.

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• noun a free kick from the corner awarded to the other side when a player has sent the ball behind his own goal line
  

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• noun a man at one end of line of performers in a minstrel show; carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor
  end man.
  

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• noun a pocket at the corner of a billiard table
  

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• noun a square post supporting a structural member at the corner of a building
  

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• the stone which lies at the corner of two walls, and unites them; the principal stone; especially, the stone which forms the corner of the foundation of an edifice; hence, that which is fundamental importance or indispensable. "A prince who regarded uniformity of faith as the corner stone of his government." Prescott.

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• one of the four teeth which come in a horse's mouth at the age of four years and a half, one on each side of the upper and of the lower jaw, between the middle teeth and the tushes.

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• verb do something the cheapest or easiest way
  
  • Cut corners to make a cheaper product

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Four"-cor`nered adjective

Definitions

1. Having four corners or angles.

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• clandestine, underhand. Colloq. "The wretched trickery of hole and corner buffery. " Dickens.

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• adjective satellite relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life
  hole-and-corner.
  
  • a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community"- H.G.Wells
• adjective satellite conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
  hugger-mugger; clandestine; secret; surreptitious; underground; cloak-and-dagger; hush-hush; undercover.
  
  • clandestine intelligence operations
  • cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines
  • hole-and-corner intrigue
  • secret missions
  • a secret agent
  • secret sales of arms
  • surreptitious mobilization of troops
  • an undercover investigation
  • underground resistance

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• adjective satellite relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life
  hole-and-corner.
  
  • a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community"- H.G.Wells

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• adjective satellite slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line
  cater-cornered; cata-cornered; catty-cornered; catty-corner; kitty-corner; catacorner; catercorner.
  
  • set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot

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• adjective satellite slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line
  cater-cornered; cata-cornered; catty-cornered; catty-corner; kitty-corner; catacorner; catercorner.
  
  • set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot

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• a game in which all the players but one occupy corners of a room, or certain goals in the open air, and exchange places, the one without a corner endeavoring to get a corner while it is vacant, leaving some other without one.

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• adjective satellite having sharp corners
  sharp-angled.
  

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• noun the intersection of two streets
  corner; turning point.
  
  • standing on the corner watching all the girls go by

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• adjective satellite having three corners
  
  • a three-cornered hat
• adjective satellite involving a group or set of three
  
  • a three-cornered race

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Three"-cor`nered adjective

Definitions

1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
2. (Bot.) Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three-cornered stem.

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• noun European leek naturalized in Great Britain; leaves are triangular
  Allium triquetrum; triquetrous leek.
  

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• to weep or cry; to feel regret, vexation, or disappointment after hilarity or exaltation. Slang

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• to go round a corner. (b) (Fig._ To advance beyond a difficult stage in a project, or in life.

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• to pass the critical stage; to get by the worst point; hence, to begin to improve, or to succeed.

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