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generous to a fault

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generous to a fault
Cliché too generous; overly generous. My favorite uncle is generous to a fault. Sallyalways generous to a fault—gave away her lunch to a homeless man.
See also: fault, generous


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Generous to a fault in life, James dedicated his body for future physicians and sick people to the Anatomical Gift Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School for studies to be performed.
Yes, he was tough (and playfully called the 'Iron Chancellor'), but fair-minded, generous to a fault and always open to new ideas," Frederic Golden, who was hired by Fuerbringer, said in an e-mail Wednesday that was cited by Fuerbringer's son.
He wants us to see early man not the way he was, but the way he would have liked us to see him: civil, polite, generous to a fault.
 
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