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Idioms and Phrases

Deserving a name or description, as in Any artist worthy of the name can draw better than that . This expression uses worthy of in the sense of “deserving by reason of merit,” a usage dating from about 1300.

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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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