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7 Idioms Beginning With 'V'
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- Vale of tears
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This vale of tears is the world and the suffering that life brings.
- Velvet glove
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This idiom is used to describe a person who appears gentle, but is determined and inflexible underneath.
('Iron fist in a velvet glove' is the full form.)
- Vent your spleen
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If someone vents their spleen, they release all their anger about something.
- Vicar of Bray
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(UK) A person who changes their beliefs and principles to stay popular with people above them is a Vicar of Bray
- Vicious circle
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A vicious circle is a sequence of events that make each other worse- someone drinks because they are unhappy at work, then loses their job...
'Vicious cycle' is also used.
- Virgin territory
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If something is virgin territory, it hasn't been explored before.
- Volte-face
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If you do a volte-face on something, you make a sudden and complete change in your stance or position over an issue.
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