thresh out
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When liberals from both parties howled, Dirksen sat down with his G.O.P. colleagues at a series of luncheon conferences to thresh out their differences.
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The delegates had dispersed into committees to thresh out compromises when a U.S.
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In Montgomery, lawyers met in Judge Johnson's courtroom to thresh out the claims and counter claims that had beclouded the week.
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The more plausible explanation was that they wanted time to thresh out in private conferences the agenda for the summit.
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“Why should I not whistle, seeing that the serpent has bidden us thresh out his barn by the morning light, so that straw lies by straw, chaff by chaff, and grain by grain?”
From Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
