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  • 71would-be — index specious Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 72would-be — [adj] aspiring ambitious, budding, eager, enterprising, hopeful, keen, potential, promising, prospective, striving, wannabe*, wishful; concept 403 …

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  • 73would-be — ► ADJECTIVE often derogatory ▪ desiring or aspiring to be a specified type of person …

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  • 74would not put it past him — would not put it past him, etc (informal) I, etc regard him, etc as (esp morally) capable of (some action disapproved of) ● past …

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  • 75would be better doing something — british spoken phrase used for saying that someone should do something else rather than what they are in fact doing Why does he waste his time studying poetry? He’d be better getting some practical experience of business. Thesaurus: ways of… …

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  • 76would do well to do something — phrase used for advising that someone should do something You’re still only a junior employee in this business, and you’d do well to remember that. Thesaurus: ways of warning or advising someonesynonym Main entry: do …

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  • 77would give your eye teeth for something — would give your eye teeth for something/to do something/spoken phrase used for saying that you wish you could have do something very much I’d give my eye teeth for a house like that. Thesaurus: to want somethingsynonym to want to do… …

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  • 78would give your eye teeth to do something — would give your eye teeth for something/to do something/spoken phrase used for saying that you wish you could have do something very much I’d give my eye teeth for a house like that. Thesaurus: to want somethingsynonym to want to do… …

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  • 79would — [[t]wəd STRONG wʊd[/t]] ♦ (Would is a modal verb. It is used with the base form of a verb. In spoken English, would is often abbreviated to d.) 1) MODAL You use would when you are saying what someone believed, hoped, or expected to happen or be… …

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  • 80would */*/*/ — UK [wʊd] / US modal verb Summary: Would is usually followed by an infinitive without to : A picnic would be nice. Sometimes it is used without a following infinitive: They didn t do as much as they said they would. In conversation and informal… …

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