deep end
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They’re all taller than I am, so sometimes they picked a place right between the shallow end and the deep end, where they could stand and I couldn’t.
From Literature
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Listening to them, I feel like I’m standing on tiptoe in that place between the shallow end and the deep end of the pool even though I’m on dry land.
From Literature
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“I’m throwing him in there in the deep end of the pool,” Baffert said.
From Los Angeles Times
“Try to shape these events. This is a moment of world history here. Just jump in the deep end of the pool.”
Yet, before she passes her high school threshold and dives into the brutal deep end of upper secondary education, it’s all cool.
From Salon
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