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bosom friend

[booz-uhm frend] / ˈbʊz əm ˈfrɛnd /


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For the past three years Alan Patrick Herbert, Punch staff member and tireless contributor, has been regaling readers with the letters of Topsy, exclamatory and energetic post-War type, to her bosom friend.

From Time Magazine Archive

Let there be no propaganda, said Creel to his bosom friend, Woodrow Wilson; let there be "unparalleled openness," "expression, not repression"�in short, "voluntary censorship."

From Time Magazine Archive

One of his ancestors had been a bosom friend of Henry VIII, and the men of Northampton had never bothered greatly about what others said.

From Time Magazine Archive

To begin with, in the quarter-final match between burly young John Doeg* of California and Tilden's bosom friend, Frank Hunter, Tilden insisted on audibly coaching Hunter from the sidelines.

From Time Magazine Archive

I acted in the capacity of backer, or best-man, to the bridegroom; while a little limp pew-opener in a soft bonnet like a baby’s, made a feint of being the bosom friend of Miss Skiffins.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens



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