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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Billing

What does 'billing' mean in the following sentence:

Further studies are needed to confirm whether 'nature's penicillin' (the garlic) lives up to its billing.
  

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How it is being portrayed.

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  • How it is being portrayed.
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How it is being portrayed.
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A more informal (common) way of saying that would be its "hype" instead.
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And 'hype' means 'reputation'?
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'hype' comes from 'hyper' -- meaning excitement generated about a product or idea.
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