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bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

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I do think a lot of times female protagonists have been very young and bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and very plucky.

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I do think a lot of times female protagonists have been very young and bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and very plucky.

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Obviously with Marge, you can tell she’s somebody who is kind of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and finds herself in this place and hasn’t had a lot of experience.

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While some of us may be going into 2024 bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, Trump’s legal team seems to have spent the first week of the new year hunkered down with court filings.

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Not many of Bridges’ students, for instance, are as “bright-eyed and bushy-tailed” as she was in her first year.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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