close enough for government work
(idiomatic, humorous, pejorative, slang) Good enough; not worth the time or effort of perfecting.

A: Where's Chen from? B: He's from Malaysia. A: Really? He looks Chinese. B: As a matter of fact, he is Chinese, but he really is from Malaysia. A: That's very interesting. 小陈是哪国人? 甲:小陈是哪一国人? 乙:他是马来西亚人。

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Word had quickly got around. The French and British are sending reinforcement. Some go in small groups. This time they are around two hundred. At time of this week, there have been many more. After two days the British government will give a soldier

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Angelina was born in LA in 1976. She loved movies and started acting classes to follow her dream of movie stardom. She was rebellious and became a punk with dyed purple hair and tattoos. Her movie career took offin 1997 and within a few years she had

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 27 November 2006 The International Committee of the Red Cross says the government of Burma has ordered the Swiss humanitarian organization to close its five field offices in the country. The Red Cross says this effectively mak

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A: Hey Steve. When's the next time you're going to play golf? B: I'm going out this Saturday. A: Do you already have a foursome? B: Unfortunately, we do. Let's plan for something together for Wednesday. We can go right after work. A: That sounds good

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a blanket of sth
acetogeneses
after twelve
alignment diagnostic
ambulance corps
angiologies
antiradical
antiulcerogenic
Apractognosia
aster ericoidess
blenderizes
Bourdon pressure gage
breast bone saw
catalog management
Chasseral
chip curl
Cineform
communities
Coragoxin
count down
crown-of-thorns
de jong and bouman photographs
decussroium
deliberate maiming
deterministic finite tree automaton
divvied
dune belt
effective Hall Parameter
elastic theory
electric machine for tropical use
electric-shocks
electricity system
electro-chemical reactor
exhilarate
Faliero
Ffs
floating pontoon wharf
foot rests
foreshore
Gempei War
generalized polynomials
gigamp
handywomen
hemophilus ducrevi
hernial covering
heterophone
induced radioactive nuclide
janking
land tax collected in kind
Las Peňas
late fee
lee-boot effect
Lefini
looping structure
low-growth
macrocryst
Madrid interband offered rate
managerial goals
marbletopped
mcanarney
McKnight L.
mentsch
Met.E
microphytophagous mites
nanolaminates
Nazirite
net shaker
nitroanilide
nonlinear parametrization
Ollerton
outfinessed
p-(p-toluoyl)benzoic acid
para-site
periblast
play a waiting game
pogostemon cablins
pollution,contamination
precaudal plate
presentation model
pro fanity
red bayberries
redundancy check
retzina
Rhamnus croceus
roller bin gate
secancy
send someone off
side frequency
slipped his wind
soal
steel plate galvanized
sto gate dielectric
Stop loss limit
traffic surveillance and control system
trifoveolate
tursiopss
TV-ad
unturns
Utta
Valle del Cauca
vernalised
vrindi