STICKS AND STONE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A general term for building materials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("sticks and stone" is a kind of...):

building material (material used for constructing buildings)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

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