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Feeling very happy, delighted, as in She was on top of the world after her roses won first prize. This idiom alludes to the peak of success or happiness. [c. 1920]

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Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
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France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
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The world that Black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.
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Have a look at this telling research from Pew on blasphemy and apostasy laws around the world.
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Allegations of transphobia are not new in the world of gay online dating.
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Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.
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All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
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There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.
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He came to the top of the stairs with a lamp in his hand, and wanted to know what the rumpus was about.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
That it is a reasonable and proper thing to ask our statesmen and politicians: what is going to happen to the world?
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