sidle up: move up sideways, especially in a shy
or stealthy manner.
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stand off: stand away,
in a distance
stare down: to stare back at another
ornamental, elaborate
manner.
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Phrases and expressions
blue steak: (colloquial) anything
regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc. to talk a blue streak: to talk much and rapidly.
until the gaze of the one stared at is
turned away.
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Phrases and expressions
not round and not square:
irregular in shape.
in style: in a fashionable and
Moment when Dee, the elder daughter, wants the old quilts only
to be refused flatly by the mother, who intends to give them to Maggie, the younger one. The old quilts, made from pieces of clothes worn by grand- and great-grand parents and stitched by