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drop a bollock

vulgar slang To mess something up; to make a particularly egregious error. Primarily heard in UK. That new intern is totally useless, he's always dropping a bollock on important projects. That player really dropped a bollock during the match yesterday.

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Jean Bollack (1923-2012) was Professor of Greek Literature and Thought at the University of Lille; a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, at Princeton, and at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin.

The Art of Reading: From Homer to Paul Celan

Le jardin romain: AaAaAeA@picurisme et poAaAaAeA@sie AaAaAeA Rome; MAaAaAeA@langes AaAaAeA Mayotte Bollack.

Transcending Lucretius: Vitruvius, Atomism, and the Rhetoric of Monumental Permanence

Alain Bollack and Mike Wilks, the new VPs, further enhance the practices' technical expertise with over 50 years of combined experience.

United Kingdom : Capgemini Consulting adds 2 VPs to British Utilities practice

Thus far, doctors received six children who underwent surgery after their screening," said Eloise Bollack, communication officer for the PCRF.

62 children screened on first day of mission in Gaza

40) Las interpretaciones de Lesher 1994 y Bollack 2006 constituyen, cada una con sus diferencias, las lecturas que han puesto mayor enfasis en la poesia como el referente central del relato alegorico de Parmenides.

Las hijas del Sol en el proemio de Parmenides

Bollack J (2006) Dichtung wider Dichtung: Paul Celan und die Literatur.

Drinking the milky blackness

Cioran, Paul Ricoeur, Jean Bollack o incluso Pierre Bourdieu.

Blumenberg y Foucault: el analisis del poder pastoral como un ensayo de metaforologia politica

El tercer capitulo se cierra con un brillante excurso sobre Hermeneutica y Recepcion, en el que las continuas referencias a Gadamer, Goodman, Bollack, Jauss, Iser y Roman Ingarden nos iran aproximando a lo que sera el ultimo capitulo y cierre de esta propuesta: la conclusion fenomenologica.

Luis Alvarez Falcon. Realidad, arte y conocimiento. La deriva estetica tras el pensamiento contemporaneo

Jean Bollack writes about the relationship between Celan and Sachs in his profound book Dichtung wider Dichtung: Paul Celan und die Literatur.

Iconicity as the key to the poetry of Nelly Sachs (1891-1970)/Ikonisiteit as sleutel tot die digkuns van Nelly Sachs (1891-1970)

329-352, nonche Bollack, Mayotte, <<Momen mutatum (la deviation et le plaisir, Lucrece, II, 184-293)>>, CahierPhilol.

The water's raritas in Vitruvius/La raritas dell'acqua in Vitruvio

39), que, segundo ele proprio, baseou-se em Jean Bollack, e entender que e proprio do discurso alegorico a parafrasagem: "na alegoria, entendida como arte de pensar outra coisa com as mesmas palavras ou dizer de outra maneira as mesmas coisas ("dar um sentido mais puro as palavras da tribo.

A configuracao discursiva do genero parabola biblica: entre a captacao e a parafrasagem

With the help of Francoise Bollack, the architect who oversaw the renovation of the Osborne's lobby, many of the apartment's original details have now been uncovered, she said.

Bobby Short and Leonard Bernstein home on the market

11) One of many competing inventors of global auxiliary languages at the end of the nineteenth century, Leon Bollack published three works on Bolak: La Langue Bleue Bolak: langue internationale pratique (1899); Grammaire Abregee de la Langue Bleue (1900); and Premier vocabulaire de la langue bleue Bolak (1902).

Justice, Zola's global utopian gospel

Desafortunadamente, Bollack se equivoca al citar la identica linea B 20.

Sobre la historia del kosmos griego

The principals of the theater are Bill Bollack and Marty Belz, both of Memphis, and David Pollack of St.