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HUBLOT Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Of the first water

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Olds was a Peace Democrat of the first water.

Does of the first water have the same meaning as "of the first water" in "It's a diamond of of the first water"?
  

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That's where the idiom came from, yes. Here it means he was a very loyal and committed, very traditional Peace Democrat.

— Mister Micawber

  • That's where the idiom came from, yes.
  • Here it means he was a very loyal and committed, very traditional Peace Democrat.
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That's where the idiom came from, yes. Here it means he was a very loyal and committed, very traditional Peace Democrat.
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