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  • 41To catch one flatfooted — Flat footed Flat foot ed, a. 1. Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep; suffering from fallen arches. [WordNet sense 3] [1913 Webster] 2. Firm footed; determined. [Slang, U.S.] [1913 Webster] 3. clumsy; amateurish; pedestrian;… …

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  • 42Working-day — Work ing day, a. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard working. [1913 Webster] O, how full of briers in this working day world. Shak. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 43dobbin — noun Etymology: Dobbin, nickname for Robert Date: 1596 1. a farm horse 2. a quiet plodding horse …

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  • 44plod — verb (plodded; plodding) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1562 intransitive verb 1. to work laboriously and monotonously ; drudge 2. a. to walk heavily or slowly ; trudge b. to proceed slowly or tediou …

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  • 45slow-footed — adjective Date: 1642 moving at a very slow pace ; plodding < a slow footed novel > < a slow footed ship > • slow footedness noun …

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  • 46stodgy — adjective (stodgier; est) Date: 1854 1. having a rich filling quality ; heavy < stodgy bread > 2. moving in a slow plodding way especially as a result of physical bulkiness 3. boring, dull < out on a peaceful rather stodgy Sunday boat trip Edna&#8230; …

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  • 47flat-footed — I. adjective Date: 1601 1. affected with flatfoot; broadly walking with a dragging or shambling gait 2. a. firm and well balanced on the feet b. free from reservation ; forthright < had an honest flat footed way of saying a thing > 3. not ready …

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  • 48Couplet — For other uses, see Couplet (disambiguation). A couplet is a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. While traditionally couplets rhyme, not all do. A poem may use white space to mark …

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  • 49Khmer Rouge — The Khmer Rouge (Khmer: ខ្មែរក្រហម – “Khmer Krahom” in Khmer) literally translated as Red Cambodians was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot …

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  • 50Saul Bellow — Infobox Writer name = Saul Bellow imagesize = 250px caption = Saul Bellow (left) with Keith Botsford birthname = Solomon Bellows birthdate = birth date|1915|6|10|mf=y birthplace = Lachine, Quebec, Canada deathdate = death date and&#8230; …

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