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beef
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Where's the beef? (American, informal)
something that you say when you think someone does not have enough ideas to make their plans work. Where's the beef? The Senator has no new political initiatives or ideas.
beef up something
to make something stronger or more effective. The city is beefing up police patrols, putting more cops on the street where they can be seen.

have a beef with someone/something

to think someone or something should be changed. I've got nothing against advertising, but I do have a beef with how many bad ads there are on TV.


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Whether we are honest about it our not, this is still one of our beefs with Jesus.
Fourth Sunday in Lent: March 18, 2007 by Olson, Timothy V. / Currents in Theology and Mission
This is soft science, and Jenkins beefs up his arguments with the citations of pop culture ephemera that have become standard in studies of this sort.
Sucking in the mid-to-late '70s: how the Carter-Reagan era set the ... by Cavanaugh, Tim / Reason
He was plainly wounded when teachers, nurses, police, and firefighters--all having separate beefs with Schwarzenegger--began dogging his public appearances and mussing his public image.
Is Arnold losing it? Gov. Schwarzenegger is looking less like Reagan ... by Barabak, Mark Z. / Washington Monthly
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