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spring mattress

noun

  1. a mattress containing an arrangement of spiral springs

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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At the time, I’m living at my mom’s house, on this spring mattress that’s sticking me in the back — but I’m turning down crazy money, because it just wasn’t the right thing.

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In the early days of the war, he and others were living at the ambulance station — sleeping on creaky spring mattress beds upstairs.

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It starts with making unproven and sometimes far-fetched health claims, such as that spring mattresses amplify harmful radiation, and then selling products online — from vitamin supplements to organic yogurt — that he promotes as alternative treatments.

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An analogy is that of two heavy balls on a spring mattress, whereby the indentation in the mattress made by one of the balls produces an attractive region for the other ball.

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“Adventure by day, fresh sheets and a spring mattress at night.”

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