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mean business
verb as in mean what one says
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Her brown-velvet eyes often soothed me, although her eyebrows added to her every demand: “I mean business!”
John Kerry means business, and though their comments were brief, it seems that Livni and Erekat also mean business.
Death of the I-mean-business-older dude (and subsequent substance abuse).
She'll soon wilt when she sees we mean business—either go, or take a chaperon, or marry the man, whichever she prefers.
I glanced from this Goliath to his little, bird-eyed spouse, and wondered if he had ever tried to mean business with her.
A bill stamp is a thing that often turns up convenient with gents as mean business like Mr. Vavasor and you.
The first thing I heard Mr. Davis say, was "Damn mean business."
It was equivalent to saying to the officer that the execution of the law was a mean business.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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