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nearest and dearest

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your nearest and dearest (humorous)
your family. When people are stressed at work, they tend to go home and take it out on their nearest and dearest.
See also: dear, near


your nearest and dearest
your family. My wife and dozens of her nearest and dearest are from West Virginia.
See also: dear, near


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Of course," added Miss Cornelia scornfully, "it wasn't one of those freak resemblances you read of in novels where two people are so much alike that they can fill each other's places and their nearest and dearest can't tell between them.
added Nicholas, yielding to that irresistible inclination which tempts us to judge those nearest and dearest to us.
His sisters and his mother herself besought him sore, but he the more refused them; those of his comrades who were nearest and dearest to him also prayed him, but they could not move him till the foe was battering at the very doors of his chamber, and the Curetes had scaled the walls and were setting fire to the city.
 
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