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foundation garment

[foundation garment] {n.} A close-fitting garment designed for women to wear underneath their clothes to make them look slim; a piece of woman's underwear. * /Jane wears a foundation garment […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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The moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool. www.english-slang.com

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[pound away at] {v. phr.} 1. To attack; criticize. * /In his campaign speeches the candidate kept pounding away at the administration's foreign policy./ 2. To work industriously. * /Mike […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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