A conciliatory way of saying, "nobody's perfect" that illustrates the concept. Originated with Cracked and Mad Magazine in the 70s.
> I'm sorry, that was dumb.
> That's OK, pobody's nerfect.

Stephen Foster, 1826-1864: America's First Popular Songwriter He wrote more than two hundred songs during the eighteen forties and eighteen fifties. VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program

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Over a barrel Over one's dead body 我们今天再来讲两个和over有关的习惯用语。第一个是: over a barrel. Barrel就是一只装东西的桶。那么,什么是over a barrel 呢? Over

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 03 March 2008 The body of mystic monk Padre Pio, one of the world's most popular saints, has been exhumed in preparation for public veneration. Sabina Castelfranco reports from Rome the body of the Capuchin friar will go o

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Kenya's 'Slum Drummers' Make Beautiful Music With Scrapped Objects It's hard to imagine that this instrument, called a kalimba, is actually an old cooking pot, that has been fished out of this place. But Nairobis Slum Drummers are masters at making b

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By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 13 November 2007 Next month, South Africa's African National Congress will hold its national conference to endorse policy decisions taken earlier this year and to elect leaders, including the party president who, since

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 28 June 2006 A new wave of violence in East Timor is raising fresh concerns over the country's stability after Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri resigned earlier this week. Rival factions and international peacekeepers are squari

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Government officials from more than 30 countries gathered in Hungary Friday for the opening of Central and Eastern Europe's first conference center powered by renewable energy. The building of the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Easter

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By Edward Yeranian Beirut 17 June 2008 Lebanese Army sources are reporting that at least three people were killed in sectarian clashes, overnight, in two warring Bekaa Valley villages. It was the second time in a week that fighting has erupted in th

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Indigestion Can Protect Africa's Lions African lions are increasingly hunting domestic cattle. And many of them are being killed as humans retaliate. Now, in Botswana, a pilot project is underway to save the lion by making cattle taste bad. The king

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New Survey Finds 1/3 of World's Population Overweight Obesity is not just an American problem anymore. A recent international survey by the Worldwatch Institute, found that nearly two billion people around the world are overweight. Health statistics

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It might be the cheeks flushing with embarrassment or a voice choking with emotion. Our physical reactions can reveal what we truly feel. And some think they can show when someone's lying. Typically when a person tells a lie, they begin to sweat. I'm

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By Lisa Ferdinando Miami 18 July 2006 Lawyers for terror suspect Jose Padilla are seeking to suppress statements their client made to U.S. government agents before he was arrested in May 2002. Padilla is being held in Miami and appeared in court Mon

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By Pearse Lynch Nairobi 04 August 2006 Deep divisions within the transitional government of Somalia appear to be worsening, with four more ministers defecting from the administration. International observers fear rising tension in Somalia could engu

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By Jim Stevenson Washington 04 January 2006 Snowboarding's halfpipe competition has quickly evolved to become one of the more popular winter Olympic events. One of the early stars of the sport was Ame

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Woman's Body Found in Lake 12 Years After Disappearance The body of a Florida woman who vanished on her way to the airport 12 years ago has been found at the bottom of a lake near her home, police said Friday. Gail Schoening of Broward County was a m

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 03 December 2006 John B. Menzer, Wal Mart President talks with Indian PM Manmohan Singh, right, in New Delhi, 12 May 2005 India's retail sector is set for dramatic changes as the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, gets

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 05 February 2007 Thai prime minister Surayud Chulanont has fired the Thai police chief after he failed to make progress in the investigation of bomb attacks in the capital Bangkok. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, new polls s

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They tell me I'm a blonde girl singing But I do it the way I want And now I'm stepping up to break it But I keep my feet on the floor I'm building something strong and systematic And I don't really care if I go wrong I'll do this everyday yes I'm an

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Crazy baby, the spirit of the motion 疯狂的宝贝,舞动的精灵 Dont let me feel devotion, 不要让我沉溺于你 And every day Ill always love you 每一天我都永远爱你 Baby, so let me see the fire 宝贝,让我看到你的热情 Be

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An opera company from Belgium will stage a classic one-act opera in Beijing on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. The opera, named Midnight in Paris, centers on a desperate young woman who lives in the 1950s. Naomi Beeldens is the young Belgian

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address modification type
alpizar
anomalous heating
apple-cider
as a body
audible sound
balancing work station
be dim and remote
Belomorsk
berbyce indica
binary nomenclature
block filter glass
boytrose
bridge crane with shuttle girder
business material
cajeputene
chibnall
chromatize
church text
compression cup
Consute
coplanar-electrode structure
correction key
cotton knitting machine
Cousinia platylepis
crieing
curved wall effect
Dilacol
direct sum resolution
e-petition
end of tape
extraocular muscle
finger-marked
forage migration
frondizi
g-factor of nucleus or nuclear particle
get rocks in the head
graphic editor
Helmholtz's theory of vision
Hemachatus haemachatus
high spiking fever
high-grade insulating materials
house-sat
hybrid componet
Impaired Asset
ivyclad poisoning
Kapteyn's star
ketonic ester type
lift table
main line load
maternalistic
mixer blender
moslehi
multfirequency transmitter
multipole transition
nanostring
needlers
non-experimental research
or gate
ore resources law
overate
overspeed valve
passivation film
pinv
play guitar
pm.s
Poephagus gruniens
points locking device
Pontine Marshes
postglacial isostatic rebound
postserun tetanus
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pyriform organs
rainwater hopper
recover one's feet
reform
regeneration efficiency
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representator
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ribbitting
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rumer
saggar body
second job
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skeels
skeet
smooth-boot
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solubility-temperature curve
spheric even nuclei
stop a packet
teaching method
theatricalist
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tyre last
universal instance assumption
vettell
withdrawing partner