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Examples
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It strikes me that some Senior Officers need to revisit these plain, home-spun truths.
It’s New Years Eve and I promise to do my best. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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But Kim & Kris in Brooklyn was the weird home-spun fantasy, the magazine cover waiting to happen.
Brooklyn Love & Basketball Jason Gay 2011
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Though the party took place in a penthouse suite of Mr. Balazs's hotel, the Mercer, there was something truly home-spun about it.
Notable Works, Plus Goo Goo Clusters Marshall Heyman 2011
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I'd love to hear her home-spun decisions; Well, by golly, if a man wants to marry another man, then he should just move to Russia so I can keep an eye on both of those sinners and then cast them to aitch, ee, double hockey sticks.
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No word yet on when Mrs. Kirchner will start knitting her own sweaters with home-spun wool.
Argentina's Warning to America Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2011
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Do you know of anyone who might enjoy this home-spun French word journal?
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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(Boy can she rattle off the nutritional facts and figures as well as the home-spun food advice.)
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Over the years, Mr. Samuels used eccentric, home-spun advertisements signed by himself to draw attention to Maker's Mark.
Maker's Mark President Hands Reins to Son David Kesmodel 2011
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“You betcha,” I say in the folksy, home-spun dialect I grew up speaking two states over, and which I know will ingratiate me with my fellow midwesterners.
Me and Ezra Pound, Back Home Again in Indiana Con Chapman 2012
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Do you know of anyone who might enjoy this home-spun French word journal?
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