† stadien.
Obsolete. rare.
= stadium n. 2.
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c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) iv. pr. iii. 119 Yif a man renneþ in þe stadie or in þe forlonge for þe corone, þan lieþ þe mede in þe corone for whiche he renneþ.
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n.c1374- to have one's ears flapping
- to have one's ears on
- to have one's ears to the ground
- to have one's eye after
- to have one's eye in
- to have one's eye on
- to have one's eye on the ball
- to have one's eye on the prize
- to have one's eye one's merchant
- to have one's eye to the prize
- to have one's eye upon
- to have one's eye well in
- to have one's eyeball on
- to have one's eyes in
- to have one's eyes on the prize
- to have one's eyes well in
- to have one's eyeteeth
- to have one's eyeteeth about one
- to have one's face made of a fiddle
- to have one's fair share
- to have one's feet loose
- to have one's feet on the ground
- to have one's fere
- to have one's finger on the pulse
- to have one's fingers burnt