big-note
Britishverb
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This is based in a shared misconception among TV channels, discount sofa warehouses and everyone else engaged in aggressively retailing the basic notion of Christmas: that what people want from their compulsory winter holiday is some kind of ideal state of festive transport, a soaring big-note gullet-fed Christmas strangulation to be revealed only through a definitive vision of festive ultimacy: ice-dancing with Shakin' Stevens, a midnight parade of wise dying snowmen, a tiny happy doe-eyed child made entirely out of marzipan.
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