be big about
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Said Mrs. Vanderbilt, whose job on Ranger is "keeping the log": "Surely, we will be big about it."
From Time Magazine Archive
I try to be big about it but can’t help wondering if I’d have a date, too, if I wasn’t walking around on a pipe.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
Father summoned Travis and said, “You can’t let yourself get too attached, little man. This is a working farm, and you have to be big about such matters.”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
I decided I was going to be big about it.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
"Why not both of them?" he asked, like a fellow who was willing to be big about it.
From The Kenzie Report by Mark Clifton
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