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Alan Sugar

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Despite holding two honorary doctorates from London universities, Sir Alan Sugar didn't go to univeristy. Hackney-born Sir Alan, 67, started a business selling electrical knickknacks from a van, ...

Amerasian is a person born in Asia, to a U.S. military father and an Asian mother. Several countries have significant populations of Amerasians, most noteably Philippines where the the largest U.S. ...

Chai Jing

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Chai Jing (Chinese: 柴静; pinyin: Chái Jìng; born on January 1, 1976) in Linfen, Shanxi Province in Northern China, is a Chinese journalist, host, author and environmental activist. When she was 15 ...

Take The Mickey

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British love to make fun of and tease each other and that’s exactly what ‘taking the mickey’ means. You can also say ‘take the mick.’ Example: “Stop taking the mickey out of your brother.” Meani ...

cheap as chips

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The idiom describes the moment when a person find a very cheap prices that is not usual in the market. The first British who say this phrase was the famous presenter David Dickinson, who introduced ...

Pop one’s clogs

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Pop one’s clogs is a euphemism for dying or death. To 'pop' - slang for taking something to a pawnbrokers. Clogs were used (umongst others) by poor millworkers in the North of England in the ...

Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson is often called the, "father" of transcendentalism. Many of his essays and poems are still cited as having the big ideas seen in transcendentalism.