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broad in the beam



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Idioms and Phrases

Having broad hips or large buttocks. For example, I've grown too broad in the beam for these slacks . This expression originated in the 17th century and described the wideness of a ship. It began to be used for the human body only in the 1920s.
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Meant stylistically to recall the 1953 Silver Dawn drophead — the first Rolls-Royce vehicle built as Britain began to recover from World War II — the new Dawn is long and broad in the beam, with graceful lines that suggest sinuous, sophisticated strength.

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My third was: “The big belted look is not recommended for those broad in the beam.”

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The Perhaps was a full-rigged ship, with auxiliary steam, broad in the beam, with strong, rounded bows.

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She was broad in the beam for a yacht, but consequently safe and comfortable.

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She smiled and tossed her head even when he came back and told us with great heartiness that he had bought a vessel—a north-country collier of near four hundred tons, stout in her timbers and broad in the beam, built for strength rather than speed—just such a vessel as Captain Cook had sailed in.

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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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