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noun • one who works hard at boring tasks • a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends • a mediocre and disdained writer • a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil • a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money • an old or over-worked horse • a horse kept for hire • a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc. verb • cut with a hacking tool • be able to manage or manage successfully • cut away • kick on the arms • kick on the shins • fix a computer program piecemeal until it works • significantly cut up a manuscript • cough spasmodically | ||||||||
| 29% | 8 | A second attempt at something after the first attempt failed | ||||||
noun • an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt | ||||||||
| 29% | 8 | "Break, Break, Break" poet | ||||||
noun • Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892) | ||||||||
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6 | Tennyson's "Break, Break, Break," e.g.
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16 Feb 1995 | New York Times / 16 Feb 1995 |
7 | The battle was part of a larger attempt by the Allies to break through the German lines |
