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11Blaise Jeannot Andrieux — Superherobox caption= comic color=background:#c0c0c0 character name=Blaise Andrieux real name=Blaise Jeannot Andrieux publisher=George R. R. Martin debut= Aces Abroad (1988) creators=Melinda M. Snodgrass alliance color=background:#c0c0ff… …
12Eusebius of Nicomedia — • Bishop, place and date of birth unknown; d. 341. He was a pupil at Antioch of Lucian the Martyr, in whose famous school he learned his Arian doctrines Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Eusebius of Nicomedia Euse …
13scrape — {{11}}scrape (n.) mid 15c., a scraping instrument; late 15c., act of scraping or scratching, from SCRAPE (Cf. scrape) (v.). Meaning embarrassing or awkward predicament is recorded from 1709, as OED suggests, probably from the notion of being… …
14be up shit creek (without a paddle) — be in an awkward predicament. → shit …
15shit — vulgar slang noun 1》 faeces. ↘an act of defecating. 2》 a contemptible person. 3》 something worthless; rubbish; nonsense. 4》 an intoxicating drug, especially cannabis. verb (shits, shitting; past and past participle shitted or shit or shat) 1》 …
16in a box — In a perplexity, in a difficulty, in a dilemma, in an embarrassing position, in an awkward predicament, in a bad fix …
17extricate — vb Extricate, disentangle, untangle, disencumber, disembarrass are comparable when meaning to free or release from what binds or holds back. Extricate, the most widely useful of these words, implies a situation in which someone or something is so …
18be up shit creek — ► be up shit creek (without a paddle) be in an awkward predicament. Main Entry: ↑shit …
19be up shit creek without a paddle — ► be up shit creek (without a paddle) be in an awkward predicament. Main Entry: ↑shit …
20scrape — v. & n. v. 1 tr. a move a hard or sharp edge across (a surface), esp. to make something smooth. b apply (a hard or sharp edge) in this way. 2 tr. (foll. by away, off, etc.) remove (a stain, projection, etc.) by scraping. 3 tr. a rub (a surface)… …
