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- adjective in combination Having some
specific type offorearm - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
forearm .
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Examples
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Forewarned may be forearmed -- but not in this case.
Marshall Fine: Review: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Marshall Fine 2011
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Forewarned is forearmed: If you know a food craving will strike, you can outwit it, rather than surrender to it.
The Small Change Diet Keri Gans 2011
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He also touches upon the theory behind legal education itself which provides a useful view into the heads of Canadian law school administrators everywhere (forewarned is forearmed).
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But forewarned is forearmed, and four armed is usually a defect in early limb development related to abnormal patterning of the developing limb bud.
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Forewarned is forearmed: If you know a food craving will strike, you can outwit it, rather than surrender to it.
The Small Change Diet Keri Gans 2011
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With all the crazies in New York, forewarned is forearmed.
I’ll Walk Alone Mary Higgins Clark 2011
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Knowing your Inner Critic allows you to be forewarned and thus, forearmed.
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On the grounds that forewarned is forearmed, here's chapter and verse on the lice thing.
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But I suppose it's best to be forewarned -- even if that doesn't make me feel forearmed.
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Forewarned is forearmed: when playing with "divide and conquer" with two countries that have nuclear capability, like India and Pakistan, the outcome may be apocalyptic.
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