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till death do us part

A common phrase used in wedding ceremonies indicating that the marriage bond is be intended to last until death. Taken from the marriage liturgy in the Anglican Communion's Book of Common Prayer, the phrase refers to the fact that marriage is seen in the Christian faith as insoluble except by the death of one of the partners. (Also worded as "till death us do part," which is how it is written in the Book of Common Prayer.) It was only as I said "Till death do us part" that I realized the solemnity and magnitude of our marriage to one another.
See also: death, part, till

with (one's) hand in the till

Stealing money from one's workplace or employer. Margaret finally got caught with her hand in the till after she tried using the company's expense account to pay for her vacation. Everyone knows he's been running the company with his hands in the till.
See also: hand, till
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till

In addition to the subsequent idioms beginning with till, also see hand in the till; until.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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A sharecropper, in contrast, is usually limited to a portion of tillable land, has no maintenance duties and harvests only his share of the crop.
Green Mountain Dairy is one of the largest farms in Franklin County, milking 900 cows and growing corn and grass for haylage on 1,200 tillable acres on farms purchased in Sheldon, Swanton and Highgate, as well as some leased land.
Switzer said South Dakota farmers are not only converting marginal farm-land areas with poor soil and highly erodable lands, they are draining critical wetlands in order to increase tillable acreage.
Now think of that: Land that is barely tillable and certainly allows for no more than one annual planting is being used to generate energy and ...
He said that to know the historical truth it is necessary to know who was benefiting from the plunder: the large landowners, palm-oil producers, livestock herders turned into regional politicians and bosses, who today hold the largest and best tillable land in the country.
Levapren is a highly tillable, heat-resistant elastomer.
Tillable land is valuable, so houses, with traditional ceramic-tiled roofs were clustered together in the countryside (no big lawns to mow).
Applying for MTNA Professional Certification has been made easier with the availability of tillable forms.
Decreasing pastoral lands, decreasing available tillable land, decreasing wild game, and decreasing available water all add up to more strife, Scholes says.
The fan is UL listed and tillable, according to Airmaster.
I dove off a neighbor's dock and quickly found myself under water and tillable to move or breathe.
Given the multiplicity of possible combinations of these factors, there should be enough tillable categories here to keep the unruliest rotationist quietly occupied for a MEEK [0,2] WEEK or so.
Climate/Topography: A mountain range runs up and down the middle of the island, making the eastern half rugged and the western slope flat and tillable.
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