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wear well
Idioms and Phrases
Last under continual or hard use; also, withstand criticism or the test of time. For example, These boots have worn well , or His poetry wears well . [Mid-1500s]Example Sentences
Brown and gray mixtures are always fashionable and wear well.
Something that will wear well is what this type asks for when he drops in to buy a suit.
It is a dust-shedding material, does not shrink, and bears hard wear well.
They say it is because you don't wear well, and the men only flirt with you and leave you.'
I have heard people say that the pyro-silver does not wear well, being easily scratched and otherwise injured.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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