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Idioms and Phrases

Take back something, as in As for that memo of yours, you can just stuff it . This idiom is used, often as an interjection, to express contempt or defiance. Presumably it is short for “Stuff it up your ass.” [ Vulgar slang ; 1950s]
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"I would love to have had something like this. When I was in space, I had really long-life stuff: tins, freeze dried packets, tubes of stuff. It was fine, but not tasty."

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"I've had players coming up to me saying 'sorry to hear about your dad', 'you're doing really well' and stuff. It's nice because he was so loved and so respected."

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"We could hit this shop every day for a week and we'd still find stuff. It's non-stop," Dennis Chalmers from Trading Standards says.

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“I constantly am asked questions about my family and about Rikk, D.I., Adolescents, all that stuff, it’s amazing to me how many people not only know but care,” said Alfie, who is also a mathematical physicist teaching at Cal State Fullerton.

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“Because it was their first time at City Hall, and they’re hearing all this stuff. It was pretty disturbing.”

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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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