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Look out for one's own best interest. For example, Tom is watching the company's progress very closely; he always has an eye to the main chance. [c. 1600]

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What does "dignity" mean?

showing self-respect

treating others with kindness

acting selfishly

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At the moment, the only chance I get is when I go do Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
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But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.
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If you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.
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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
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All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
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