“someone\'s”

The following 412 entries include the term someone\'s.

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by someone's reckoning

idiom

: according to someone's calculations

call someone's bluff

idiom

: to challenge someone's statement or threat because it is not believed

capture/catch someone's imagination

idiom

: to make someone very interested or excited

capture someone's imagination

idiom

: to impress someone as interesting and exciting

catch someone's drift

idiom

: to understand what someone means

catch someone's fancy

idiom

: to appeal to someone very much

center of someone's universe

idiom

: the most important part of someone's life

change someone's mind

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: to cause someone to change an opinion or decision

check/take/feel someone's pulse

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: to measure how fast someone's heart is beating

circumstances beyond someone's control

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: things that have happened that someone cannot change or influence

claim someone's life

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: to cause someone's death

clear someone's name

idiom

: to prove that someone is not guilty of a crime

clip someone's wings

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: to limit someone's ability to do or say things

close/hard/hot on someone's or something's heels

idiom

: chasing or following someone or something very closely

close to someone's heart

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: considered by someone as very much worth caring about

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