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something like



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Idioms and Phrases

Similar to, resembling, as in They want a flower garden something like the ones they saw in England . [Mid-1600s]
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“I’m a car and airplane guy. And 90 days is a rushed job. But I figured out how to build a structure with a human figure. Someone else had worked on it, and it didn’t quite work. But I can look at a human and see something like an airplane — a lightweight, tubular structure. When you look at something and you’re not trained, you see it with a different filter.”

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"If you compare farming to something like the construction industry - people go home at the end of the day, they have a site manager," said Stephanie Berkeley, who manages the foundation.

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When asbestos is disturbed by something like an air strike, its fibres - too small to see with the human eye - can be breathed in by those nearby and can then work their way through to the lining of the lungs.

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Were there moments where you saw something in Joe, or comments that he made, and thought, “I’ve been that guy before” or “I’ve done something like that...”

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Dave just didn’t sing like that — he probably couldn’t bring something like that home.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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