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  • 11talk tall — To boast • • • Main Entry: ↑talk talk tall and walk tall see under ↑talk and ↑walk1 • • • Main Entry: ↑tall …

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  • 12tall´ness — tall «tl», adjective, adverb. –adj. 1. a) higher than the average; having great height; high: »New York has many tall buildings. SYNONYM(S): lofty, towering. See syn. under high. (Cf. ↑high) b) …

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  • 13tall — [[t]tɔ͟ːl[/t]] ♦♦♦ taller, tallest 1) ADJ GRADED Someone or something that is tall has a greater height than is normal or average. Being tall can make you feel incredibly self confident... She was a young woman, fairly tall and fairly slim... The …

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  • 14talk — v. & n. v. 1 intr. (often foll. by to, with) converse or communicate ideas by spoken words. 2 intr. have the power of speech. 3 intr. (foll. by about) a have as the subject of discussion. b (in imper.) colloq. as an emphatic statement (talk about …

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  • 15talk about — verb 1. to consider or examine in speech or writing (Freq. 40) The author talks about the different aspects of this question The class discussed Dante s Inferno • Syn: ↑discourse, ↑discuss • Derivationally related forms: ↑disc …

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  • 16tall — [14] The ancestral meaning of tall is ‘quick’. It is a descendant of Old English getæl ‘quick, ready’, whose relatives included Old Frisian tel and Old High German gizal ‘quick’, and which may go back ultimately to the prehistoric Germanic base… …

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  • 17tall — [14] The ancestral meaning of tall is ‘quick’. It is a descendant of Old English getæl ‘quick, ready’, whose relatives included Old Frisian tel and Old High German gizal ‘quick’, and which may go back ultimately to the prehistoric Germanic base… …

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  • 18big talk — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, bedizenment, blowing up, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, burlesque, caricature, convolution, dilatation, dilation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating,… …

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  • 19walk tall — talk tall and walk tall see under ↑talk and ↑walk1 • • • Main Entry: ↑tall walk tall (informal) To be proud, have self respect • • • Main Entry: ↑walk * * * walk …

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  • 20high - tall — ◊ high You use high to describe things which measure a larger distance than usual from the bottom to the top. For example, you talk about a high hill or a high fence . ...the high mountains of northern Japan. ...the high walls of the prison. ◊… …

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