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Idioms and Phrases
Show signs of rough treatment or injury, as in That car of yours looks as though it's been to the wars . This term dates from the late 1300s, when, however, it tended to be used literally. The figurative usage is more recent.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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