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- noun A heap of
mud ; by extension, any pile of metaphoricaldetritus
Etymologies
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Examples
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The most dishonoring familiarity is the first tax these women levy on the frantic passions or griefs that are confided to them; they never rise to the level of their clients; they make them seem squat beside them on their mudheap.
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It is fighting with a mist, and firing cannon-balls into a mudheap.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868
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The most dishonoring familiarity is the first tax these women levy on the frantic passions or griefs that are confided to them; they never rise to the level of their clients; they make them seem squat beside them on their mudheap.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Leicester have not lost a Premiership game on their own mudheap for well over a year, but they might have felt just a little uncomfortable ahead of this one had Northampton not lost their best three locks - Juandre Kruger, Ignacio Fernandez Lobbe and the exciting Courtney Lawes - to a mix of suspension, injury and international duty.
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a wreath of artificial orange blossoms, which looked like a diadem of snow on a mid-winter mudheap.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales
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