(exp) to try the patience of a saint
(n) Third Epistle of John (book of the Bible)
(n) hypothetical syllogism
(exp) (id) As the twig is bent, so grows the tree
(n) tricyclic antidepressant
(n) tricyclic antidepressant
(n) triaxial compression apparatus
(n) (ling) third person singular present
(v1) to be put (thrown) out at third base
(exp) (id) A child is an everlasting responsibility to parents
(exp) perseverance prevails (lit: even the coldest rock will get warm if sat on for three years)
(n) disjunctive syllogism
(n) (comp) triangle strip
(n) World War III
Third World War
(n) third-party allocation of shares
(n) categorical syllogism
(n) fifty-three stages on the Tokaido (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
(exp) it often takes time to bear the fruit of one's actions (lit: planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years to bear fruit, plums take eight)
(n) Three Principles on arms exports
(exp,vs-i) to look daggers at someone
to be angry
(n) adenosine triphosphate
ATP
(n) guanosine triphosphate
GTP
(n) Cesium 137 (Cs-137) (Caesium)
(n) Pascal's triangle
(n) playoff for the tournament win in sumo with three wrestlers participating
(n) three-cornered battle
(exp) the child is father to the man
lit: the soul of a child of three (is the same) at 100
(exp) very fond of
more fond of than eating
lit: more important than three meals a day
so fond of that someone would rather not eat than go without
(exp) (id) Three women make a market
(exp) the early bird gets the worm (lit: to wake up early gets you three (small value) coins)