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  • 91(an) easy touch — a soft/an easy/touch informal phrase someone who can be persuaded very easily to do something, for example to give you money She’s a nice woman, but she’s not a soft touch. Thesaurus: people who are considered weak, useless or unreliablesynon …

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  • 92re|touch´er — re|touch «ree TUHCH, REE TUHCH», verb, noun. –v.t. to improve (as a photographic negative, painting, or composition) by new touches or slight changes: »Retouched and smoothed and prettified to please (Berton Braley). –v.i. to give retouches:… …

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  • 93re|touch — «ree TUHCH, REE TUHCH», verb, noun. –v.t. to improve (as a photographic negative, painting, or composition) by new touches or slight changes: »Retouched and smoothed and prettified to please (Berton Braley). –v.i. to give retouches: »retouch a… …

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  • 94You Give Love a Bad Name (album) — Infobox Album | Name = You Give Love a Bad Name Type = Album Artist = GG Allin Released = 1987 Recorded = May 18, 1987 (original LP) March 4 and July 7, 1991(CD bonus tracks) Genre = Punk rock Length = 31:32 (original LP) 60:22 (CD reissue) Label …

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  • 95To keep touch — Keep Keep (k[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept} (k[e^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[=e]pen, AS. c[=e]pan to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE. copnien to desire.] 1. To care; to desire. [Obs.] [1913… …

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  • 96One touch (association football) — Passing or shooting the ball with one touch rather than trapping or dribbling the ball first. Often an effective tactic for quick shots from passes or crosses, flick passes or for give and go passes. One or two touch scrimmages or drills are also …

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  • 97(an) easy soft touch — an easy/a soft ˈtouch idiom (informal) a person that you can easily persuade to do sth, especially to give you money • Unfortunately, my father is no soft touch. Main entry: ↑touchidiom …

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  • 98(an) a soft touch — an easy/a soft ˈtouch idiom (informal) a person that you can easily persuade to do sth, especially to give you money • Unfortunately, my father is no soft touch. Main entry: ↑touchidiom …

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  • 99To give ground — ground ground (ground), n. [OE. ground, grund, AS. grund; akin to D. grond, OS., G., Sw., & Dan. grund, Icel. grunnr bottom, Goth. grundus (in composition); perh. orig. meaning, dust, gravel, and if so perh. akin to E. grind.] 1. The surface of… …

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  • 100not touch — Synonyms and related words: abstain, abstain from, avoid, dispense with, do without, eschew, fight shy of, forbear, forgo, give place to, hold aloof, hold aloof from, hold back, hold off, keep aloof, keep away from, keep back, keep clear of, keep …

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