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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Tergiversation | Draw in one's horns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek; swerve, flinch, back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come back return to one's first love; turn over a new leaf; (repent). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "THINK BETTER OF IT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ndërroj mendje (change one's mind), ndërroj mendim për dikë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غير رأيه (change one's mind, exchange whispers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | преразглеждам (reconsider, rehear, review), премислям (change one's mind, ponder, rethink, think out, think twice, weigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozmyslit si (bethink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | décider la réflexion. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκέφτομαι καλύτερα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לשקול שוב (reconsider, sleep on it, think over), לראות בעין יפ" (sympathize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | meggondol (deliberate, reason, reconsider, to deliberate, to think of). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inkthay etterbay ofay itay одуматься, быть лучшего мнения о, передумать (alter one's mind, change one's mind). (various references) promisliti (reason, rethink, think over). (various references) cambiar su parecer, cambiar de opinión (change one's mind). (various references) fikrini değiştirmek (change one's mind, recant, turn round). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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