Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray
It might come true (run, run with you)
Baby, then there wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do
We could be married (we could be married)
Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beatles
"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation ..."
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
"She was like a star, shining bright" is an example of this literary device.
Simile
A spontaneous or natural liking or sympathy for someone or something.
Affinity
This version of poker, named after a state, has players hold two of their own cards and create the best hand out of five cards revealed on the table.
Texas Hold 'em
Oh, that'll have to do
My other half was you
I hope this pain's just passin' through
But I doubt it
Stick Season - Noah Kahan
"Whenever I'm about to do something, I think 'Would an idiot do that? And if they would, I do not do that thing."
Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson), The Office
In the equation (sqrt52 + 19)/(i - 42) , this number is the radicand.
52
Jargon used in popular psychology.
Psychobabble
After beating each of the first seven bosses in Super Mario Bros., Toad says he's sorry, but the princess is in this location.
Another castle
'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play
And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate
Shake It Off - Taylor Swift
"I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this."
Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey), Dumb and Dumber
Instead of making fondant the old-fashioned way, you can use these fluffy confections as an ingredient to get a similar result.
Marshmallows
Hunker
If you're in a legal setting and plead the fifth, you are refusing to do this to yourself.
Incriminate
Your beauty is beyond compare with flaming locks of auburn hair
With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green
Your smile is like a breath of spring, your voice is soft like summer rain
Jolene - Dolly Parton
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Fool's good
Focus one's attention or mental effort on a particular object or activity.
Concentrate
Why men great 'til they gotta be great?
Don't text me, tell it straight to my face
Best friend sat me down in the salon chair
Shampoo press, get you out of my hair
Truth Hurts - Lizzo
"I ain't got time to bleed."
Blain (Jesse Ventura), Predator
If you're looking for specific outcomes in your next batch of calves, you'll want to know the parents' EPD's, an acronym that stands for this.
Expected progeny differences
Difficult to find, catch, or achieve.
Elusive
Hypothetically speaking, a quantum physicist might tell you that nothing happens in the universe unless a human does this.
Observes it