take the starch out of
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The guys give off the impression, both online and in person, that they just want to take the starch out of this stuffed-shirt town.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2023
The Governor says a night in there'll take the starch out of ye.
From For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
Nothing can take the starch out of you like looking for something, and not finding it.
From Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal by Robert Sydney Bowen
The interview, on the whole, had been well calculated—it may have been carefully calculated—to take the starch out of a woman grown.
From Concerning Sally by William John Hopkins
I was just telling Ivy it's good there's no lightning; but the rain does take the starch out of things.
From Peggy-Alone by Anna B. Craig
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