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.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Navy harbors little doubt about the ability of Polaris crews to stand the gaff.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not until the Rutgers* game, his sophomore year, did Kazmaier demonstrate that he was tough enough to stand the gaff.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are men that have to be lashed on by ridicule to stand the gaff.
From The Sheriff's Son by Raine, William MacLeod
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