stand the gaff
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Princeton Coach Charley Caldwell, 1950 coach-of-the-year and likely to be the coach of 1951, is frank to admit that, as a 155-lb. freshman, Kazmaier simply looked too frail to stand the gaff of big-time football.
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Neither of them will have been able to stand the gaff.
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Not until the Rutgers* game, his sophomore year, did Kazmaier demonstrate that he was tough enough to stand the gaff.
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This sort of thing has happened often in Wright's career, and the hostile argument runs that few businessmen are as able as rich Mr. Johnson to stand the gaff of perfectionism at like cost.
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"I'm the cause for all this, and I'll stand the gaff!"
From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
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