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Tkacka15 Posted 7 years ago
Vocabulary

Doorstopper

"And the result – a doorstopper of a report covering multiple interconnected issues – damns Facebook not just once or twice but time and time again."

(The Guardian.)

Does "a doorstopper of a report" mean "a comprehensive report"?

  

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The printed report is so thick (so many pages) that it is imagined that it could be used as a doorstopper.

  • The printed report is so thick (so many pages) that it is imagined that it could be used as a doorstopper.
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The printed report is so thick (so many pages) that it is imagined that it could be used as a doorstopper.

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