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
Wouldn’t one think it enough to sort of subdue anybody, take the starch out of them for some time?
From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell
If you can manage him here, rely on Grahame and me and a few others in New York, to take the starch out of him at home.
From The Art of Disappearing by John Talbot Smith
I'll take the starch out of your darned Puritan collar!
From By Advice of Counsel by Arthur Cheney Train
"I just have to take the starch out of her now and then, don't I, Cynthia Ann?"
From Flood Tide by Sara Ware Bassett
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