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“They’re going to get rid of Liz Cheney because they’d much rather pretend that the conspiracy is either real or not confront it than to actually confront it and maybe have to take the temporary licks to save this party and, in the long term, this country," he said on CBS' “Face the Nation.”
Does "licks" mean "beatings" in the context above?
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anonymous Does "licks" mean "beatings" in the context above? It would seem so.
- anonymous Does "licks" mean "beatings" in the context above?
- It would seem so.
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anonymousDoes "licks" mean "beatings" in the context above?
It would seem so.
0Yes. A lick is slang for a blow, eg a punch.
Figurative blows, I hope, not actual blows, I hope. (You never know with Republlcans.)
This part of the text doesn't seem correct to me. I dn't clearly understand it.?
they’d much rather pretend that the conspiracy is either real or not confront it than to actually confront it
Clive
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