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to burn
Idioms and Phrases
see money to burn .Example Sentences
It has a key to the backdoor or, better yet, has lived inside your house all along, trying to burn it all down instead of sitting with the discomfort that your life might be changing.
It has a key to the backdoor or, better yet, has lived inside your house all along, trying to burn it all down instead of sitting with the discomfort that your life might be changing.
Legal expert Dr Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne told us: "Certainly the use of chemicals to burn the detainee and submerge their head would meet the threshold of torture, as would the use of electric shocks, removal of toenails, and severe beatings. These, or comparable acts, have all been recognised to constitute torture by international bodies," as have the use of stress positions and loud music.
Pollsters have noted the frequency with which respondents claim they just want to "burn it all down," not troubling themselves with what will happen to the social infrastructure that supports their very existence.
Others, namely those who’ve known him the longest, think Trump is filled with vile hatred and wants to burn the world down before he dies.
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