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Example sentences for: chestnuts

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Hence those various other acid chestnuts of his:
He also takes whacks at those old chestnuts and/or and ss . Under the heaviest duress, such as the threat of boiling in ink, lawyers might relinquish all these; but they will fight to the bitter end and finally die at the barricades before surrendering their whereases . Never mind that, the author says; Whereas is consistently vague, meaning variously `the fact is,' `although,' `considering that,' `on the contrary,' and `that being the case,' with many shadings in between.
The inevitable old chestnuts are here-- infer/imply , appraise/ apprise , etc.--but most of the 250 or so entries in these 70-odd pages deal with matters of style, word selection, and the avoidance of pompous or meaningless clichés.
Here and elsewhere, the rich, flat land produces the ingredients for a formidable fruit salad: oranges and grapefruit, chestnuts and persimmons, plus exotic tropical delicacies all but unknown outside Asia.
This version came from the fable of the monkey which used a cat's paw to draw hot chestnuts from a fire.