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noun • one who works hard at boring tasks • a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends • a mediocre and disdained writer • a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil • a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money • an old or over-worked horse • a horse kept for hire • a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc. verb • cut with a hacking tool • be able to manage or manage successfully • cut away • kick on the arms • kick on the shins • fix a computer program piecemeal until it works • significantly cut up a manuscript • cough spasmodically | ||||
| 31% | 5 | He said "Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writers" | ||
noun • British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965) • British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880) | ||||
| 29% | 7 | Poet who said "Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writers" | ||
noun • British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965) | ||||
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