• aliment
    DEFINITION: (verb) To supply with sustenance, such as food. SYNONYMS: nutrify, nourish. USAGE: He was required by court order to aliment the abandoned family. Discuss […]
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Keep your fingers crossed

fingers crossed
something that you say to show that you hope that what you have just said will happen or be true.
Fingers crossed, we’ll get the job done in time, but there’s still an awful lot to do.

behind someone’s back

if you do something behind someone’s back, you do it without them knowing, in a way which is unfair.
I don’t want to talk about it behind his back. She was accused of going behind her colleagues’ backs to talk to management.