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Idioms and Phrases

Deliver a blow with the first, as in He was furious enough to throw a punch at the other driver . This term originated in boxing but has been extended to less formal fisticuffs as well. [First half of 1900s]

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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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