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under age (https://www.sky-net-eye.com/rus/?redir=8566-under-age)  {adj. phr.}
Слишком молодой; не достаточно взрослый; несовершеннолетний.
He could not enlist in the army because he was under age.
Rose was not allowed to enroll in the Life Saving Course because she was under age.
Прот.: OF AGE (https://www.sky-net-eye.com/rus/?redir=5519-of-age) (1).
Robert Benchley, Benchley--or Else!
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-b-/aphorism-2746

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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
P.J. O'Rourke
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-r-/aphorism-4502

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(1947--), Modern Manners, 1989
The only polite thing to do when engaged in sky diving, hang gliding, ice climbing, or any other dangerous sport is to die. That's what everyone's waiting around for.
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Изобилие — не беда.
Ср. Каши маслом не испортишь.
P.J. O'Rourke
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-r-/aphorism-2641

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(1947--), Modern Manners
Never transmit a sexual disease in public.
hail from (https://www.sky-net-eye.com/rus/?redir=3256-hail-from)  {v.},  {informal}
Иметь отчий дом (где-л.); происходить из; быть/прибывать из; в особенности родиться или вырасти где-л.
Mrs. Gardner hails from Mississippi.
Mr. Brown and Mr. White are old friends because they both hail from the same town.
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Jill Ruckelshaus
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-r-/aphorism-4633

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U.S. activist
No one should have to dance backwards all their lives.
H.E. Bell
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-b-/aphorism-2971

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Parents are the very last people who ought to be allowed to have children.
Petronius Arbiter, (--66 AD) Roman author
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-a-/aphorism-3069

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We trained hard but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."
Paula Poundstone
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-p-/aphorism-3387

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(1959--)
U.S. comedienne
I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.