earth

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  • all corners of the earth
  • all over the earth
  • back to earth
  • bring (one) back (down) to earth
  • bring (one) down to earth
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  • bring somebody/come down to earth
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  • cost a pretty penny
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  • cost/pay/charge the earth
  • disappear off the face of the earth
  • disappear/vanish off the face of the earth
  • down to earth
  • down-to-earth
  • earth mother
  • earth move, to feel the
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  • earth to someone
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  • follow (one) to the ends of the earth
  • four corners of the earth, the
  • from all corners of the world
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  • go to earth/ground
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  • God's green earth
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  • how, what, why, etc. on earth...
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  • not have an earthly chance
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  • plummet (down) to earth
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  • promise (one) the earth
  • promise (one) the moon
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  • run (someone or something) to ground
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  • salt of the earth
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  • the earth moved
  • the ends of the earth
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  • the scum of the earth
  • to the ends of the earth
  • what on earth
  • where on earth
  • Where on earth?
  • Where on God’s green earth?
  • where on God's green earth
  • why on earth
  • wipe (someone or something) off the face of the earth
  • wipe off the face of the earth
  • wipe off the map
  • wipe something off the face of the earth
References in classic literature
But Adam did not crave it, Nor the flight he wouldn't brave it, Singing:--"Air and Water, Earth and Fire, What more can mortal man desire?"(The Apple Tree's in bloom.)
As Adam was a-working outside of Eden-Wall, He used the Earth, he used the Seas, he used the Air and all; And out of black disaster He arose to be the master Of Earth and Water, Air and Fire, But never reached his heart's desire!(The Apple Tree's cut down!)
There was a frightful roaring beneath us--the giant frame trembled and vibrated--there was a rush of sound as the loose earth passed up through the hollow space between the inner and outer jackets to be deposited in our wake.
That two lives will be snuffed out is nothing to the world calamity that entombs in the bowels of the earth the discoveries that I have made and proved in the successful construction of the thing that is now carrying us farther and farther toward the eternal central fires."
They could, therefore, make observations in four different directions; the firmament by the side and most direct windows, the earth or the moon by the upper and under openings in the projectile.
"No, my friends, we have not fallen back upon the earth; no, nor are we submerged in the Gulf of Mexico.
As to the second question, "What is the exact distance which separates the earth from its satellite?"
The sick and perishing--it was they who despised the body and the earth, and invented the heavenly world, and the redeeming blood-drops; but even those sweet and sad poisons they borrowed from the body and the earth!
As with astronomy the difficulty of recognizing the motion of the earth lay in abandoning the immediate sensation of the earth's fixity and of the motion of the planets, so in history the difficulty of recognizing the subjection of personality to the laws of space, time, and cause lies in renouncing the direct feeling of the independence of one's own personality.
It was a fruitless search, however, in so far as antelope is concerned; but one night as I lay courting sleep at the edge of a little cluster of date-palms that surround an ancient well in the midst of the arid, shifting sands, I suddenly became conscious of a strange sound coming apparently from the earth beneath my head.
O thou in Heav'n and Earth the only peace Found out for mankind under wrauth, O thou My sole complacence!
And he bade famous Hephaestus make haste and mix earth with water and to put in it the voice and strength of human kind, and fashion a sweet, lovely maiden-shape, like to the immortal goddesses in face; and Athene to teach her needlework and the weaving of the varied web; and golden Aphrodite to shed grace upon her head and cruel longing and cares that weary the limbs.
My muscles, perfectly attuned and accustomed to the force of gravity on Earth, played the mischief with me in attempting for the first time to cope with the lesser gravitation and lower air pressure on Mars.
Nor was it generally understood that since Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from time's beginning but nearer its end.
At last a steady twilight brooded over the earth, a twilight only broken now and then when a comet glared across the darkling sky.