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Definitioner
Substantiv
- (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
- (uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively.
- (countable) A drinking straw.
- a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
- (figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
Adjektiv
- Made of straw.
- Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
Exempel
- ‘For thy sword and thy bow I care not a straw,
- Nor all thine arrows to boot;
- If I get a knop upon thy bare scop,
- Thou canst as well shite as shoote.’
- He also decided, which was more to his purpose, that Eleanor did not care a straw for him, and that very probably she did care a straw for his rival.
- To be deeply interested in the accidents of our existence, to enjoy keenly the mixed texture of human experience, rather leads a man to disregard precautions, and risk his neck against a straw.
- straw hat
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