“missa”

The following 4 entries include the term missa.

miss a beat

phrase

: to have difficulty in continuing : to stop or hesitate briefly often used in negative constructions

missa cantata

noun

ite, missa est

Latin quotation from the Mass

: go, you have been dismissed

never/not miss a trick

idiom

: to notice everything : to always know what is happening


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