Phobias
Idioms
Crawling in Australia
Assassins
Latin
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Hemophobia is the irrational fear of this red bodily liquid.

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A dentist would not recommend you taking this idiom literally; a rival gunmen might.

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The swimming stroke known as the Australian Crawl is the most popular in this kind of race.

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The Zapruder film provides the best known angle of the assassination of this man, committed by Lee Harvey Oswald.

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An ancient language, Latin became widespread thanks to this conquering civilisation.

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Steady! If you have equinophobia, you might not be interested in saddling up on one of these.

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To avoid saying what you actually mean is to do this outdoorsy-sounding idiom.

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Popular amongst Australians, this type of drinking activity involves moving from place to place and may well have you crawling by the end.

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Assassinated by a poisoning, Russian expatriate Alexander Litvinenko was an outspoken critic of this powerful leader.

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Latin America consists of countries in the Americas that were once colonised by Spain, Portugal, and this other European power.

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People who are reluctant to be vaccinated may have trypanophobia, the irrational fear of these medical instruments.

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It’s to be lavish in one’s spending, not to begin a fishing trip.

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This Australian actor of Robin Hood fame was the subject of a 1981 song by rock band Australian Crawl.

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Ezio Auditore da Firenze, a member of the Brotherhood of Assassins, is a playable character in this popular video game series.

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It’s believed that Christ died in 30 AD, with those letters representing this latin phrase meaning “in the year of the Lord”.

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Astraphobia is the fear, not of the stars, but of this other more frightening heavenly phenomenon.

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The first occurrence of this idiom happened quite literally, when a theatre company “thieved” a man’s idea for a sound machine.

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She was born Amethyst Amelia Kelly, learnt to crawl in Sydney, and chose her stage name after her dog and a plant.

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A highly-intense East Coast-West Coast rivalry in the music scene culminated in the 1996 and 1997 assassinations of these two rappers.

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The name of this cardinal direction comes from the same root as the Latin word “vesper”, meaning an evening prayer.

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A person who is glossophobic may avoid this method of expressing their thoughts. Dr King and  certainly wasn’t.

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This “meaty” idiom originates from the British rhyming slang word for ‘look’ – ‘hook’.

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He learnt to crawl in Lagos, Nigeria. Nevertheless, this lead singer named his band in accordance with his newly-adopted homeland.

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Khalid Islambouli killed this man, Prime Minister of Egypt until 1981.

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It’s the first principle of René Descartes’s philosophy, the Latin phrase “Cogito, ergo sum”.