Be real
be real
interjection
An exhortation to be sane and sensible: John, are you going fishing this weekend? Be real, Smitty, I have to study for a test (1980s+ College students)
interjection
An exhortation to be sensible, to eschew illusion: ”I’ll trade them for your Reuben Kincaid sleep goggles.” ”Get real, pal”/ Be real, Smitty, I have to study for a test/ What other city has both a large number of Quaker activists and a dreadlocked black cult whose house the city has bombed? Get real (1970s+)
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to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother. to deprive ruthlessly or by force (usually followed by of): The war bereaved them of their home. Obsolete. to take away by violence. Historical Examples But if that union be calculated to bereave her of happiness, it […]
- Bereaved
(of a person) greatly saddened at being deprived by death of a loved one. a bereaved person or persons (usually preceded by the): to extend condolences to the bereaved. to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother. to deprive ruthlessly or by force (usually followed […]
- Bereft
a simple past tense and past participle of bereave. deprived: They are bereft of their senses. He is bereft of all happiness. to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother. to deprive ruthlessly or by force (usually followed by of): The war bereaved them of […]
- Berhyme
to celebrate in verse. Historical Examples This is thy humour to berhyme us still;Never so slightly pleased, but out they fly. The Works of John Marston John Marston
- Beribboned
adorned with ribbons. Historical Examples I descended the steps, the dainty, beribboned slipper still in my hand, got into my carriage and started back to the city. 54-40 or Fight Emerson Hough They are elaborately clipped and powdered and beribboned by special “coiffeurs.” Behind the Beyond Stephen Leacock It was too early for the throng […]