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"Stand the gaff" nghĩa là gì?
12 Oct, 2020
"Stand the gaff" -> nghĩa là tỏ ra bền bỉ, dẻo dai; tỏ ra có sức chịu đựng; chịu đựng (gánh vác) mọi sự khó khăn không ta thán.
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Key first moved to Rogers with her family in 1897. She graduated from the Rogers Public Schools in 1908 and the next year went to St. Louis to train as a nurse. Following a stint in the Army Nurse Corps in France during World War I, she returned to Rogers, where she befriended (giúp đỡ) aging humorist Tom Morgan, a writer and local merchant who, in 1924, suffered a severe stroke and required the services of a full-time nurse. The cantankerous (khó tính) patient said, "Well, if there has to be someone here, send for Vera Key; she can stand the gaff.
Defenders of the law had set great store by the Corker amendment (sửa đổi), which seemed to indicate that the Republican majority was both a) afraid to stand the gaff that will come when people lose their healthcare, and b) realizing that repealing the ACA without a viable replacement would cause actual chaos.
Hakoah depends upon its knowledge of the fine points of the game to win games. Playing against any St. Louis team, the Jewish lads will face a bunch of bashing-smashing-‘get that ball through the goal‘ set of players, altogether different from anything they have met before. Messrs Guttmann, Eisenhoffer, Gruenwald and company have been listed with the players who ‘cannot stand the gaff.’ If that be so, then they are in for a trimming (sắp xếp) in the Mound City next Sunday. The Madison boys will show them all the speed they want.
Biden cannot stand the gaff. He will fall by the wayside (vệ đường) as will the Democratic party.
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