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(I) can't say as I do(, can't say as I don't)
(I) don't believe I've had the pleasure
(I) don't care if I do
(I) don't mind if I do
(I) don't need this
(it) don't bother me none
(not) care two hoots
(not) give a fig
(not) give a toss
(not) give two hoots
(one) doesn't give a hoot (about something)
(one) doesn't give a rip (about something)
(one) doesn't have a problem with that
(one) doesn't miss a trick
(one's) face doesn't fit
(please) don't get up
(someone) (just) doesn't know when to quit
(the good) Lord willing and the creek don't rise
all in the Kool-Aid and don't know the flavor
all in the Kool-Aid but don't know the flavor
be damned if you do and damned if you don't
better the devil you know than the devil you don't
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know
better the devil you know than the one you don't know
care a whit
cart before the horse, don't put/set the
change horses in midstream, don't
clothes don't make the man
count one's chickens before they hatch
cross a bridge when one comes to it
cry over spilt milk, don't
crying over spilled milk, it's no good/use
cut of his/her jib, I don't like the
damned if (one) does and damned if (one) doesn't
damned if I do and damned if I don't
damned if I do, damned if I don't
damned if I/you/they do, damned if I/you don't
damned if you do and damned if you don't
damned if you do, damned if you don't
darken my door (again), don't/never
devil you know is better than the devil you don't know, the
didn't care a whit
didn't care too hard
do not hang noodles on my ears
do not pass go
do’s and don’ts
doesn't have a (certain kind of) bone in (one's) body
Don Juan
Don’t ask
Don’t call us, we’ll call you
Don’t get your bowels in an uproar!
don’t give a hoot
don’t give a rip
Don’t have a cow!
Don’t I know it!
Don’t make a federal case out of it!
Don’t make me laugh!
Don’t sweat it!
Don’t you wish!
don't @ me
don't amount to a bucket of spit
don't ask
don't ask me
don't ask me!
don't believe I've had the pleasure
don't bet on it
don't bite the hand that feeds (you)
don't blame (one)
don't blame me
don't bother me
don't bother me none
Don't bother me!
don't call us, we'll call you
Don't call us, we'll call you.
don't care if I do
Don't change horses at midstream.
don't change horses in midstream
Don't change horses in midstream.
Don't change horses in the middle of the river.
Don't change horses in the middle of the stream.
don't change/swap horses in midstream
don't come running to me if you break your leg
don't count your chickens
don't count your chickens before they hatch
don't count your chickens before they're hatched
don't crap where you eat
Don't cross that bridge till you come to it.
Don't cry before you are hurt
don't cry over spilled milk
don't cut no ice
don't cut off your nose to spite your face
don't drop the soap!
don't even go there
Don't even look like
don't even look like (something)
Don't even think about it
don't forget to write
don't get mad, get even
don't get me started
don't get me wrong
don't get up
don't get your bowels in an uproar
Don't get your bowels in an uproar!
don't give me any of your lip
Don't give me any of your lip!
don't give me that
don't give me that line
don't give me that story
don't give me that!
Don't give up the day job
don't give up the ship
don't give up your day job
don't give/care a rap for
don't go (doing something)
don't go doing something
don't go there
don't halloo before you are out of the woods
don't halloo till you are out of the woods
don't halloo until you are out of the woods
don't hand me that line
don't hand me that story
don't have a cow
Don't have a cow!
don't have a pot to piss in
don't have a pot to piss in (or a window to throw it out of)
Don't hold your breath
don't I know it
don't judge a book by its cover
don't kill the messenger
Don't knock it
don't knock yourself out
don't know beans
don't know from Adam
don't know whether to eat it or rub it on
don't let (someone or something) get you down
don't let get you down
Don't let it go any further
don't let the bedbugs bite
don't let the door hit you on the way out
don't let the facts get in the way of a good story
Don't let the fox guard the henhouse.
don't let the grass grow under (one's) feet
don't let the grass grow under one's feet
don't let the grass grow under your feet
don't look a gift horse in the mouth
don't look at me
don't make a federal case (out) of (something)
don't make a threat you cannot carry out
don't make me laugh
Don't make me laugh!
don't make me say it again
Don't make me say it again!
don't make threats you cannot carry out
Don't mention it
don't mind (someone)
don't mind if I do
don't mind me
don't monkey around with me
don't patronize me
don't play (around) with me
don't push
don't push me
Don't push!
don't put all your eggs in one basket
Don't put the cart before the horse
don't rock the boat
don't say it
Don't say it!
don't see you much around here anymore
don't shoot the messenger
don't sleep on (someone or something)
don't spare the horses
don't speak ill of the dead
don't spend it all in one place
don't start
don't strain yourself
Don't swap horses at midstream.
Don't swap horses in the middle of the river.
Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.
don't sweat it
don't sweat the small stuff
don't take any wooden nickels
don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs
don't tell a soul
don't tell me
don't tell tales out of school
don't that (just) beat all
don't that beat the Dutch!
don't that take the rag off the bush!
don't that tear the rag off the bush!
don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
don't trouble trouble till trouble troubles you
don't wash your dirty linen in public
Don't waste your time
don't whistle before you are out of the woods
don't whistle till you are out of the woods
don't whistle until you are out of the woods
Don't worry
don't worry (about a thing)
don't worry your (pretty little) head about it
Don't worry your head about it
don't you believe it
don't you believe it!
don't you dare
don't you dare!
don't you wish
Don't you wish!
do's and don'ts
dos and don'ts
get it
get someone wrong
God willing and the creek don’t rise
God willing and the creek don't rise
hold one's breath
home, James(, and don't spare the horses)
homie don't play that
How should I know?
I don’t believe this!
I don’t mean maybe!
I don't believe it
I don't believe it!
I don't believe this
I don't believe this!
I don't blame (someone)
I don't blame you/her, etc.
I don't care
I don't fancy yours (much)
I don't have time to breathe
I don't have time to catch my breath
I don't know
I don't mean maybe
I don't mean maybe!
I don't mind admitting (something)
I don't mind admitting, telling you..., etc.
I don't mind if I do
I don't mind telling you
I don't mind telling you (something)
I don't need this
I don't rightly know
I don't suppose you
I don't suppose you could...
I don't think so
I don't understand
I don't understand (it)
I don't want to alarm you, but
I don't want to sound like a busybody, but
I don't want to upset you, but
I don't want to wear out my welcome
I don't wonder
I don't/couldn't give a monkey's
I guess not
if at first you don't succeed, try, try again
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it
if it ain't broke don't fix it
if it ain't broke, don't fix it
If that don't beat a pig a-pecking!
if that don't beat all
If that don't beat all!
if that don't fuck all
if there's anything you need, don't hesitate to ask
if you can't do the time, don't do the crime
If you don't like it, lump it
if you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything
if you don't mind
if you don't mind me saying (so)
if you don't mind me/my saying so...
if you don't mind my saying (so)
If you don't mind!
if you don't see what you want, just ask (for it)
If you don't see what you want, please ask
if you don't see what you want, please ask (for it)
I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't
I'm not surprised
It don’t make me no nevermind
It don’t make no nevermind
it don't make (me) no nevermind
It's no use crying over spilled milk
just don't/doesn't get it, you/he/she
Keep trying
knock oneself out
laugh or cry, don't know whether to
let (the) perfect be the enemy of (the) good
let's not and say (that) we did
like it or lump it
makes no difference to me
maybees don't fly in June
never put off until tomorrow
not agree with (someone or something)
not break the bank
not buy (something)
not care a hang (about something)
not care a hoot (about something)
not care two hoots (about something)
not care two pins (about something)
not care two straws (about something)
not care twopence
not feel (oneself)
not get (one's) hopes up
not give (a) tuppence
not give (something) a second thought
not give (something) another thought
not give a damn
not give a hang (about something)
not give a hoot (about something)
not give a monkey's
not give a stuff
not give two pins (about something)
not give twopence
not have (one's) heart in (something)
not have a (snowball's) chance in hell
not have a clue
not have a leg to stand on
not have a penny to (one's) name
not have a penny to bless (oneself) with
not have a pot to piss in
not have a prayer
not have all day
not have an earthly chance
not have much between the ears
not have the face (to do something)
not have the heart
not have the stomach for (something)
not have two brain cells to rub together
not have two nickels to rub together
not have two pennies to rub together
not hold water
not know (one is) born
not know (one's) own strength
not know (someone) from a bar of soap
not know beans (about something)
not know enough to come in out of the rain
not know from nothing
not know if (one) is coming or going
not know the first thing about (someone or something)
not know the half of it
not know the meaning of the word
not know what (one is) missing
not know what to make of (someone or something)
not know where to look
not know where to turn
not know whether (one) is coming or going
not know whether to laugh or (to) cry
not know which end is up
not know which way to look
not know which way to turn
not let (someone) catch (one) (doing something)
not matter tuppence
not matter twopence
not mean diddly
not mince (one's) words
not miss (something) for the world
not miss a trick
not miss much
not move a muscle
not open (one's) mouth
not pay (one) any mind
not put stock in (something)
not see any objection
not see eye to eye
not set foot in (some place)
not shed a tear
not show (one's) face
not sit comfortably (with one)
not sit easily (with one)
not sit well (with one)
not stand an earthly
not stand an earthly chance
not stand in (someone's or something's) way
not stand on ceremony
not take (one's) eyes off (someone or something)
not take (something) lying down
not take stock in (something)
not tell a soul
not think much of (someone or something)
not think of (something)
not touch a drop
not trouble (one's) head about (someone or something)
not trust (one) an inch
not trust (someone) as far as (one) can throw (them)
not trust (someone) farther than (one) can throw (them)
not utter a word
not want to know
push it
real men don't eat quiche
red cent, not worth/don't have a
Remember to write
reveal (one's) (true) colors
reveal (one's) (true) stripes
reveal (one's) cards
reveal (one's) hand
rocket scientist, you don't have to be a
see the point (of something)
see the point in (doing) (something)
show (one's) (true) colors
show (one's) (true) colours
show (one's) (true) stripes
show (one's) butt
show (one's) cards
show (one's) hand
some people don't know when to quit
some people just don't know when to give up
some people just don't know when to quit
some people just don't know when to stop
stand a chance
Suppose I don't?
Supposing I don't?
take a blind bit of notice
take on
talk to the hand
the dos and don'ts
They don't make them like they used to
thing you don't want is dear at any price
Think nothing of it
throw out the baby with the bathwater, to/don't
two wrongs don't make a right
What if I don't?
what part of no don't you understand?
What you don't know won't hurt you
where the sun don’t shine
where the sun don't shine
why don't you?
with bated breath
You can't expect me to believe that
You don’t know the half of it
You don't change horses in the middle of the race.
You don't change horses mid-race.
You don't get for nothing
you don't have to be a rocket scientist
you don't have to be a rocket scientist (to do something)
You don't know the half of it
You don't know where it's been
you don't say
you don't say!
you just don't get it
You just don't get it!
you're welcome

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Don

(dŏn, Rus. dôn), river, SW European Russia. It rises SE of Tula and flows c.1,200 mi (1,930 km), first SE past Voronezh, then SW into the Sea of Azov. At its eastern bend the Don is linked by a canal (c.65 mi/105 m long), with the Volga River near Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad). The annual flood of the river is controlled by the Tsimlyansk Reservoir. Rostov-na-DonuRostov-na-Donu
or Rostov on the Don
, city (1989 pop. 1,019,000), capital of Rostov region and the administrative center of the Southern federal district, SE European Russia, on the Don River near its entrance into the Sea of Azov.
..... Click the link for more information. is the chief city and port on the Don. Navigable for c.850 mi (1,370 km) and accessible to seagoing vessels as far as Rostov-na-Donu, the Don is an important artery for grain, coal, and lumber shipments. The chief tributary of the Don is the Donets, which connects it with the industrial Donets BasinDonets Basin
, abbreviated as Donbas
, industrial region (c.10,000 sq mi/25,900 sq km), E Ukraine and SW European Russia, N of the Sea of Azov and W of the Donets River.
..... Click the link for more information. . Known to the ancients as the Tanaïs, the Don has been a trading channel since Scythian times.

Don

(dôn), river, c.70 mi (110 km) long, rising in the Pennines, N England. It flows SE through Sheffield, then turns NE and flows past Rotherham and Doncaster to the River Ouse at Goole. Canals and locks enable barges to reach Sheffield.

Don

(ancient Greek, Tanais), a river in the European USSR. Length, 1,870 km; basin area, 422,000 sq km. The source of the Don is on the eastern slopes of the Central Russian Upland near the city of Novomoskovsk (Tula Oblast, RSFSR). It empties into Taganrog Bay of the Sea of Azov.

In its upper reaches, before it is joined by the Tikhaia Sosna, the Don flows through a relatively narrow valley. Its right bank is high (in places, up to 90 m) and heavily indented with ravines, but its left bank is gently sloping. The riverbed is meandering, and there are many sandbanks. Its most important tributaries are the Nepriadva, Krasivaia Mecha, and Sosna from the right and the Voronezh from the left.

In the river’s middle reaches (to the city of Kalach-na-Donu) the valley widens considerably and is accompanied by a broad floodplain, which is up to 6 km wide at the city of Serafimovich. The right bank is usually high. The Don is joined in its middle reaches by the Tikhaia Sosna and the Chernaia Kalitva from the right and by the Bitiug, Khoper, Medveditsa, and Ilovlia from the left. The Don’s middle course empties into the Tsimliansk Reservoir, which was formed in 1952 by the construction of the dam of the Tsimliansk Hydroelectric Power Plant, which raised the level of the Don by 26 m. The creation of this reservoir made it possible to construct the V. I. Lenin Volga-Don Shipping Canal and to create water resources to irrigate and flood arid lands and improve navigation on the lower Don.

Below the dam the Don flows to its mouth through a wide valley (up to 20-30 km) with a broad floodplain. In places the river is up to 20 m deep. The delta, with an area up to 340 sq km, begins below the city of Rostov-on-Don. In its lower course the Don is joined by the Severskii Donets from the right and the Sal and Zapadnyi Manych from the left.

The Don is fed primarily by snow. Its basin has relatively little water. The average flow at the river’s mouth (without taking into consideration the removal of water for irrigation) is 29.5 cu km, or 935 cu m per sec. (With the creation of the Tsimliansk Hydroelectric Power Plant the average flow was decreased by approximately 160 cu m per sec.) In its upper reaches the river freezes over at the beginning of November and in its lower reaches during the first ten days in December. It thaws and opens up in mid-April in the upper reaches and in the last ten days of March in the lower reaches. Every year the Don carries out up to 14 million tons of alluvium and approximately 6.2 million tons of dissolved mineral substances. The gentle slope of the lower reaches causes a very slow flow (hence the name Tikhii Don—Quiet Don).

The Don is navigable from its mouth to the city of Georgiu-Dezh (1,355 km). In the spring vessels sail up to the village of Khlevnoe (235 km above Georgiu-Dezh). The most important ports are Georgiu-Dezh, Kalach-na-Donu, Volgodonsk (on the Tsimliansk Reservoir), Rostov-on-Don, and Azov. The Lenin Volga-Don Shipping Canal connects the Don River with the Baltic, White, and Caspian seas.

Grain, coal, metal, cement, petroleum products, industrial goods, foodstuffs, and mineral building materials are hauled upstream on the Don, and mineral building materials, salt, blast-furnace charge, ore, mineral fertilizers, industrial goods, and foodstuffs are hauled downstream. Coal, grain, and mineral building materials are shipped to the Volga, and lumber, salt, scrap, ore, and mineral fertilizers are shipped to the Don from the Volga. The principal commercial fish are pike perch, bream, carp, pelecus cultratus, Don herring, sturgeon, and stellate sturgeon (especially in the lower reaches and at the river’s mouth).

Historical survey. In the first millennium B.C. the Don was already an important trade route between the central regions of the present-day RSFSR (including the Volga Region) and the Azov region. The Greek colony of Tanais was established at the mouth of the Don on the site of present-day Azov during the fourth or third century B.C. Trade with the ancient colonies in the Crimea and on the Taman Peninsula was carried on along the Don. At the beginning of the first millennium A.D. the route along which the hordes of Huns and Bulgars passed was located around the river’s lower course. After the departure of the hordes settlements of Eastern Slavs (Antes) were founded on the Don. From the seventh to the ninth century the lower and middle Don was under Khazar domination. Incursions by the Hungarians and the Pechenegs pushed the Slavic population to the upper Don and its tributaries. From the llth century nomadic Polovtsy (Kumans) inhabited the region of the lower Don, and beginning in the 13th century the river was ruled and devastated by the Mongolian Tatars (the Golden Horde).

Between the 14th and 16th centuries the Don was a trade route, connecting Russia with Genoese colonies in the Crimea (the Genoese colony of Tana was located at the mouth of the Don). In the 15th century settlements of free people— the cossacks—were founded along the Don, and during the 16th century the Don Cossack Host was formed. In the 17th century the Don was a support base for the peasant war led by S. T. Razin, and at the beginning of the 18th century the Bulavin Uprising of 1707-09, a major rebellion, occurred on the Don. The population of the river basin increased sharply in the 18th century as the cossacks turned to agriculture and a large number of peasants moved into the Don area.

The development of capitalism and the growth of the metallurgical industry and cities associated with it led to the formation on the Don of an industrial region, the Donbas, which became a major center for the revolutionary movement. During the Civil War of 1918-20 there was a stubborn struggle with the White Cossacks on the Don. Fierce battles occurred on the river during the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) during the battle of Stalingrad (1942-43) and the ensuing offensive by the Soviet Army.

REFERENCES

Davydov, L. K. Gidrografiia SSSR, vol. 2. Leningrad, 1955.
Kama, Volga, Don: PutevoditeV. Perm’, 1967.

Don

a journal of literary, artistic, public, and political affairs, the organ of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR. It is a monthly journal and has been published in Rostov-on-Don since 1957. M. Sokolov has been its chief editor since 1957. From 1945 to 1956, Don was published as an anthology. The journal unites writers primarily from the south of Russia and has published work by M. Sholokhov (the second part of Virgin Soil Upturned and the story “The Fate of a Man”) and works of G. Sholokhov-Siniavskii, A. Kalinin, V. Zakrutkin, M. Sokolov, V. Fomenko, D. Petrov (Biriuk), A. Olenich-Gnenenko, B. Iziumskii, R. Gamzatov, K. Kuliev, A. Keshokov, D. Kugul’tinov, A. Shogentsukov, V. Monastyrev, V. Pal’man, and M. Tsagaraev. Circulation, 50,000 (1972).

Dôn

goddess of fecundity; Welsh equivalent of Irish Danu. [Brythonic Myth.: Leach, 321; Jobes, 461]See: Fertility

don

Brit a member of the teaching staff at a university or college, esp at Oxford or Cambridge

Don

1. a river rising in W Russia, southeast of Tula and flowing generally south, to the Sea of Azov: linked by canal to the River Volga. Length: 1870 km (1162 miles) 2. a river in NE Scotland, rising in the Cairngorm Mountains and flowing east to the North Sea. Length: 100 km (62 miles) 3. a river in N central England, rising in S Yorkshire and flowing northeast to the Humber. Length: about 96 km (60 miles)

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