Put Off I Must Abandon One Dropping Pounds

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Updated: October 14, 2023

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	verb • try to prevent; show opposition to • turn away from by persuasion
	42%	15		Commonly associated with the phrase 'Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery'
	noun • fictional character created by Charles Dickens; an eternal optimist
	31%	9		Techniques for dropping pounds
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