close but no cigar

close but no cigar N. Amer. informal (of an attempt) almost but not quite successful 〈北美, 非正式〉（尝试）几乎而未真正成功。 [ORIGIN: referring to a cigar received in congratulation.]

• China oil
• yard sales
• merlin
• minimiser
• Leah
• meuer
• irrationlise
• show someone who's boss
• slip carriage
• catch
• macro lens
• acetic ester
• conceivers
• pull someone up
• kirkmen
• water cock
• interior distribution
• pneum
• sarmentose
• V-agent
• Lambert
• cloud classification
• pneumatizations
• catagelophobia
• nauseation
• a good many
• auspices
• Euston Roader
• yellow jasmine
• relative attenuation
• aurifications
• Easter Islanders
• lofts
• interdigital structure
• reverse Brayton cycle
• onomatopoeical
• be confident of
• halfbeak
• stowage factor
• unbiblical
• retinal
• hoodooing
• hypermeters
• prefabricated
• cut vertex
• the run/state of things
• new-coined
• Hyalellidae
• saroses
• get someone's pecker up
• average power output
• Friendship cannot stand always on one side.
• requiter
• loungings
• Tahoe Lake
• close / shut your ears to sth
• troctolites
• electrolytic condensers
• utensils
• yellow union
• chemical shift
• helpdesker
• offcut
• nuclearizations
• gastrotomies
• adjective clauses
• day girls
• general magazine
• macrophysical
• hyalinisations
• gag rein
• capturers
• bruted
• sugar snap pea
• indulgencies
• finger-pointer
• water right
• deck crane
• agonistical
• terra-cottas
• do porridge
• renavigating
• disagreers
• diarsines
• ambering
• clinometric
• artificial radiation belt
• talk turkey
• boeotians
• sand leeks
• sleekiest
• constriction disease
• shoot a way out
• aerosolised
• commemorate
• under the (或 a) strain
• pound Scots
• thrillers
• excel
• svedberg