hands-on

1. active and practical

2. controlled manually rather than automatically.

My teacher has a hands-on policy.

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house-cleaning

a reorganization of a business, government entity, or organization, especially with presumed intention of dismissing dishonest or incompetent officials/employees

They talk about a house-cleaning, yet they barely took any action.

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blues

1. depression, melancholy

2. a style of jazz music

If you have the blues, eat a square of chocolate.

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jughandle

a portion of the road that curves tightly to form a shape resembling the handle of a jug

Take the jughandle at the exit to reach the highway.

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chesty

1. having large breasts, buxom

2. very boastful

She's too chesty about her being chesty for my taste.

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lame duck

1. A political official who has lost power due to term limit or losing the vote(Historically applied to a President of the United States who runs for re-election despite losing the vote)

2. an arrangement in a game where a player is likely to lose but is still in the game

If we let that lame duck back in I might scream.

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pea soup

a very thick fog, especially one with an abundance of yellowish air pollution (such fogs were once common in London)

I don't want to go outside in that pea soup. It made me sick the last time.

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