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Idioms and Phrases

Having broad hips or large buttocks. For example, I've grown too broad in the beam for these slacks . This expression originated in the 17th century and described the wideness of a ship. It began to be used for the human body only in the 1920s.

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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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