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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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GOTTEN OFF MY BACK and AS THEY COME

Hello friends, somoene could help me wit these espressions (in capital letters)I have read on the Miles's Autobiography?:

'Even the music critics had GOTTEN OFF MY BACK by this time and many of them were calling me "Charlie Parker's sucessor".'

'... because he was this big, jovial guy, a gentleman, and smart AS THEY COME.'
Thanks in advance, Jo.
  

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gotten off my back - stopped criticising me as X as they come - an idiom. It means very X. So in this case, very smart.

— Nona the brit

  • gotten off my back - stopped criticising me as X as they come - an idiom.
  • It means very X.
  • So in this case, very smart.
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gotten off my back - stopped criticising me

as X as they come - an idiom. It means very X. So in this case, very smart.
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