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stamp

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fit/write something on the back of a postage stamp
if you say you could write what you know about a subject on the back of a postage stamp, you mean you know very little about that subject. What I know about car maintenance could be written on the back of a postage stamp.
See also: back, fit, write

a rubber stamp

rubber-stamp something - if someone rubber-stamps a decision or a plan, they give it official approval, often without thinking about it enough. The committee is just a rubber stamp for the president's policies.
See also: rubber

rubber-stamp something

if someone rubber-stamps a decision or a plan, they give it official approval, often without thinking about it enough. School governors will not simply rubber-stamp what teachers have already decided. The court was asked to rubber-stamp the Department's decision to free the men.
See also: rubber-stamp

someone's stamping/stomping ground

a place where you regularly spend a lot of time. I spent an afternoon in Camden, my old stomping ground.
See also: ground

stamp out something
to stop or destroy something. How long have we been trying to stamp out drugs? Everyone enjoys these games, although some people want to stamp them out.


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