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jaws
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No eyebrows raised, no jaws dropped, no gobs smacked.
It’s not exactly a clever term, but then again, most of the turns of phrases that drop like rotten apples from the slack jaws of far-right talking heads aren’t stickers.
The Company prioritizes preserving these lethal creatures for study instead of protecting the people it sends into their snapping jaws.
They were also skilled crocodile-killers, known to incapacitate the massive creatures by crushing their skulls in their powerful jaws.
Fiona Hutchings, 47, said jaws around her dropped when the "flash of green" that flew past turned out to be a forester moth.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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