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[Rome] See: ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME.
[Rome wasn’t built in a day] Great things are not accomplished overnight; great deeds take a long time. — A proverb. •/A takes a long time to write a successful novel, but don’t worry; Rome wasn’t built in a day, as the saying goes./
[roof] See: HIT THE CEILING or HIT THE ROOF, RAISE THE ROOF.
[rooftop] See: SHOUT PROM THE HOUSE- TOPS or SHOUT FROM THE ROOFTOPS.
[room] See: CONTROL ROOM, POWDER ROOM, UTILITY ROOM.
[room and board]{n. phr.} A room for rent with meals included. •/A room alone in that country costs only $10 a day, but room and board together run $22 a day./
[room clerk] or [desk clerk]{n.} A person who is responsible for assigning rooms and providing service to guests in hotels, motels, inns, etc. •/At first-class hotels, room clerks are trained to be at the service of every guest./ •/Sometimes resort hotels in the mountains hire college students as room clerks during the summer./
[room to] See: LIVE IN.
[room service]{n.} Service provided to hotel guests in their rooms. Also: The hotel workers who give this service. •/We called for room service when we wanted ice./ •/Room service will install a TV set in your room upon demand./
[room with]{v. phr.} 1. To live in a furnished room with someone as a roommate without having an affair. •/I roomed with him in college for four years./ 2. To live together as husband and wife without the benefit of marriage. •/Dan and Sue have been rooming together for quite a while and people are wondering if they will ever get married./
[roost] See: CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST, RULE THE ROOST.
[root] See: TAKE ROOT.
[root-bound]{adj.} 1. Having a limited amount of space for root growth. •/After seven or eight years day lilies become root-bound and will not bloom well unless they are divided./ 2. Liking the familiar place where you live and not wanting to go away from it; having a sentimental attachment to one place. •/Mr. Jones has lived in Connecticut all his life. He is too root-bound to consider moving to another state./
[root for]{v. phr.} To cheer for; applaud; support. •/During the Olympics one usually roots for the team of one’s own country./
[rope] See: END OF ONE’S ROPE, GIVE ONE ENOUGH ROPE AND HE WILL HANG HIMSELF, ON THE ROPES, THE ROPES.
[rope in]{v.}, {informal} 1. To use a trick to make (someone) do something; deceive; fool. •/The company ropes in high school students to sell magazine subscriptions by telling them big stories of how much money they can earn./ Syn.: TAKE UP(5a). 2. To get (someone to join or help); persuade to do something. •/Martha roped in Charles to help her decorate the gym for the party./ •/I didn’t want the job of selling tickets for the dance, but I was roped in because everyone else was too busy to do it./
[rope Into]{v.}, {informal} 1. To trick into; persuade dishonestly. •/Jerry let the big boys rope him into stealing some apples./ 2. To get (someone) to join in; persuade to work at. •/It was Sue’s job to bathe the dog but she roped Sam into helping her./ •/Mother did not go to the first meeting of the club because she was afraid she would be roped into something./ Compare: TALK INTO.
[rope off]{v. phr.} To divide into sections by use of a rope. •/The police roped off the section of the street where the president was expected to jog./
[rose] See: BED OF ROSES, LOOK AT THE WORLD THROUGH ROSE-COLORED GLASSES.
[rose-colored glasses] See: LOOK AT THE WORLD THROUGH ROSE-COLORED GLASSES.
[rotten egg]{n.}, {informal} A person whose character or way of acting is not good. •/His friends have all learned he is a rotten egg./ Often used by children in fun, as of someone who is slow in doing something. •/The boys ran to the river to go swimming and Dick cried, "Last one in is a rotten egg!"/
[rotten to the core]{adj. phr.} 1. Thoroughly decayed or spoiled. •/This apple is inedible; it is brown and soft and rotten to the core./ 2. In total moral collapse. •/The Communist government of Cuba is rotten to the core./
[rough] See: DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH.
[rough-and-ready]{adj.} 1. Not finished in detail; not perfected; rough but ready for use now. •/We asked Mr. Brown how long it would take to drive to Chicago and his rough-and-ready answer was two days./ 2. Not having nice manners but full of energy and ability. •/Jim is a rough-and-ready character; he’d rather fight than talk things over./
[rough-and-tumble] 1. {n.} Very rough, hard fighting or arguing that does not follow any rules. •/There was a rough-and-tumble on the street last night between some soldiers and sailors./ •/Many people don’t like the rough-and-tumble of politics./ 2. {adj.} Fighting or arguing in a very rough and reckless way; struggling hard; not following rules or laws. •/It took strong men to stay alive in the rough-and-tumble life of the western frontier./
[rough diamond] See: DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH.
[roughhouse]{n.} Riotous play or commotion. •/? told the boys they can play in the attic if there is no roughhouse./
[roughhouse]{v.} To play very wildly; be running around as young boys usually do. •/"Stop roughhousing this minute," Grandma cried. "Your father will be home soon."/
[rough it]{v. phr.} To live like primitive people; live with little of the comfort and equipment of civilization. •/Scouts like to rough it in the woods on weekend hikes./