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chestnuts

noun as in auburn

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Hackneyed chestnuts like that are reserved for old toastmasters, and yet, there we were.

This classic Diesel cover of “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)” is as gravelly as it is adorable.

How many times do we have to hear about those roasting chestnuts and little drummer boys?

Where are the Blair Underwoods, the Taye Diggses, the Morris Chestnuts?

Which party sent this country to the brink of ruin in 2008, and which party pulled our chestnuts out of the fire?

It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.

The chestnuts are stripped bare already and lift their black skeleton arms in the air.

Don't I remember how she sassed us for gettin' chestnuts in the wood patch back of her corn lot?

The great roasts are simmering and crackling on the spits, while the vegetables of potatoes, chestnuts and peas are boiling.

He isn't one of these raw hayseeds who hands you chestnuts out of patent medicine almanacs.

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On this page you'll find 292 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to chestnuts, such as: antic, farce, gag, humor, laugh, and one-liner.

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

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