bar
/bɑɹ/ adverb C2- Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name. · Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Gradually the reception-room filled, and some of our old friends made their appearance—we mean Debray, Château-Renaud, and Beauchamp, accompanied by all the leading men of the day at the bar, in literature, or the army, for M.
She placed a bar of iron in the middle of the kitchen floor, and then by her magic arts made the iron invisible to human eyes.
So that when Dorothy walked across the floor she stumbled over the bar, not being able to see it, and fell at full length.
“Well, bar the expression, that might almost be a description of Douglas himself,” said Holmes.
Other matches
- bar A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or ... A1
- bar To obstruct the passage of B1
- bar A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pasc... C2
- bar Except, other than, besides. C2
- bar A metasyntactic variable representing an unspec... C2
- bar down To loosen mined ore in a cart using a bar in or...
- bar off To barricade with bars.
- bar out To keep
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