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Significats de teetotum en anglès

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A conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin.

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Examples for "top"
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Outside the top 100 stocks however, the market was in good shape.
The Irish Times
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So just top line question; is wearing sunscreen still a good idea?
Wired
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The French president Emmanuel Macron said the crisis must top the agenda.
Radio NZ
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Yet the impact on investment banks' top lines was far from positive.
Reuters
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Myth: State schools are no good at getting children into top universities.
The Guardian
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She opened it, and stepped out of the humdrum into the whirligig.
The Drums of Jeopardy
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The centrifuge was inspired by a simple spinning toy called a whirligig.
The Irish Times
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To him the compass must have been a profound and awful whirligig.
The Human Drift
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My, he thought, how many years since I played with a whirligig.
The Tarn of Eternity
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The case may have hidden the whirligig aspects of the timepiece.
The illustrated longitude: the true story of a lone genius who s...
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I came to in a moment, my heart whirling like a spinning top.
Parnassus on Wheels
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The one that whirls around like a spinning top is hardcooked.
The Perdue Chicken Cookbook
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It consisted of a tin man mounted on a spinning top.
The devil in the white city: murder, magic & madness and the fai...
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Thrusters reverse, let's retreat and make like a spinning top.
Clementine
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After all, what was he, what was human striving everywhere, but a vainly spinning top.
The Henchman
Ús de teetotum en anglès
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A fellow must have some reward for making a teetotum of himself.
Rose in Bloom / A Sequel to "Eight Cousins"
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The Labour Members also believe; and tremble like a falling teetotum.
Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
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Father Brown started and spun half round like an absurd teetotum.
The Wisdom of Father Brown
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I do not find fault, but you turn me about like a teetotum.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 06
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She raises her hands to heaven, she spins round like a little teetotum.
What Every Woman Knows
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When he was not a teetotum he was a windmill.
Auld Licht Idyls
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I have already apologized for treating you like a teetotum, on a former occasion.
The Fallen Leaves
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We watched him spin round like a teetotum and kenned that he was bye with it.
Mr. Standfast
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Ask Polly; she'll spin you round like a teetotum." "Mr.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
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We were spinning the teetotum yesterday and it did not spin well so we made new ones.
The Child Under Eight
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He gave this a last suggestive kick and then dangled there in midair, spinning around like a teetotum.
At Whispering Pine Lodge
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Every one appears to patronize the contrivance, and you constantly hear the click of the teetotum along the beach.
A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
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He was turning like a teetotum, looking in all directions, and sometimes peering into the darkness of the hall with his little bloodshot eyes.
The stranger
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However, I could not augur ill of one who laughed so heartily, nor of the other, who seemed so happy in making himself a teetotum.
Rattlin the Reefer
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I think of you at Cambridge as setting the lives of young men spinning like little tops-smallhuman teetotums.
Watersprings
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His fingers showed that the waltzing teetotums had spun over the edge of the counterpane and fallen off the bed into infinity.
The Voyage Out
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