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deserve a medal

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deserve a medal  (humorous)
if you say that someone deserves a medal, you mean that you admire them for dealing with such a difficult situation or person for so long (never in continuous tenses; often + for ) She deserves a medal for putting up with that husband of hers.
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While so many spouses of our career service members deserve a medal for single-handedly managing the family and home front, we must take note that it is often our newest service men and women, and the families of Guardsmen and Reservist who are jolted into this role for the first time.
``You people really deserve a medal from the mayor for (collecting recyclables), but not for littering,'' he said.
Bob Kerrey does not deserve a medal for what happened at Thanh Phong, but neither does he deserve to be villainized.
 
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