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23-letter words containing h, a, g, t

  • to keep a straight face — If you manage to keep a straight face, you manage to look serious, although you want to laugh.
  • to keep a tight rein on — If you keep a tight rein on someone, you control them firmly.
  • to pay through the nose — If you say that you paid through the nose for something, you are emphasizing that you had to pay what you consider too high a price for it.
  • to play for high stakes — to gamble on something very important
  • to pluck up the courage — If you pluck up the courage to do something that you feel nervous about, you make an effort to be brave enough to do it.
  • to see the light of day — If something sees the light of day at a particular time, it comes into existence or is made known to the public at that time.
  • traffic-light labelling — a system of food labelling in which red, amber, and green symbols are used to indicate whether the food contains high, medium, or low amounts of sugar, fat, salt, etc
  • trans-new guinea phylum — the largest grouping of the non-Austronesian languages of Papua and New Guinea and the surrounding regions
  • trigonal trisoctahedron — a trisoctahedron whose faces are triangles.
  • unconditional discharge — the release of a defendant without having to spend time on parole or probation
  • you can't go home again — a novel (1940) by Thomas Wolfe.
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