stand the gaff
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Neither of them will have been able to stand the gaff.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not until the Rutgers* game, his sophomore year, did Kazmaier demonstrate that he was tough enough to stand the gaff.
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The Navy harbors little doubt about the ability of Polaris crews to stand the gaff.
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Though "time and change shall naught avail to break the friendships formed at Yale," friendships formed at Princeton apparently do not stand the gaff so well.
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Purse of eighteen dollars; and we had to chip in afterward with an extra three to get Mug Kelly—that's the Charlestown Pet, you know—to stand the gaff for a second round.
From The Haunted Pajamas by Elliott, Francis Perry
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