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sugarplum

[shoog-er-pluhm] / ˈʃʊg ərˌplʌm /


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The residents, including artist David Hockney, told Kensington and Chelsea borough council that Hamilton would be "destroying nature" if he cut down a sugarplum tree outside his home.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2022

But the Senate is the sugarplum fairy dancing in Democrats’ heads.

From Fox News Aug. 5, 2020

Even if you have more in common with a wooden nutcracker than a sugarplum fairy, you can still trip the light fantastic — emphasis on tripping — during a drop-in lesson at Ballet Fantastique .

From Washington Post Nov. 8, 2017

Living when we do, we have decades of Christmas television to add to the trees and mistletoe and sugarplum fairy visions already gathered around the holiday — new traditions to extend, play with and pervert.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2016

I’d flex and leap, and bow and sweep; a sugarplum, a swan, a maiden, a doll.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson




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