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genie  

   ( genies    plural  )
1       n-count   In stories from Arabia and Persia, a genie is a spirit which appears and disappears by magic and obeys the person who controls it.  
2    If you say that the genie is out of the bottle or that someone has let the genie out of the bottle, you mean that something has happened which has made a great and permanent change in people's lives, especially a bad change.  
♦ the genie is out of the bottle/let the genie out of the bottle             phrase   V inflects  
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Collaborative Dictionary     English Cobuild
do the dew
exp.
drinking out of a can or a bottle without touching it with the lips, by pouring the content from distance
sit around
exp.
let the time go by without doing something important, relax, waste time
E.g.: It was a quite evening: we sat around chatting and watching TV.
east or west, home is best
exp.
home is the best place to be no matter where it is

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