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tahy dee

  • n  receptacle that holds odds and ends (as sewing materials)
  • v  put (things or places) in order
  • a  marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits
    a tidy person
    a tidy house
    a tidy mind
  • s  (of hair) neat and tidy
  • s  large in amount or extent or degree
    a tidy sum of money

  • Packed with red herrings and digressions and leads that lead nowhere, 2666 is a work of anger and anarchy that laughs bitterly at the idea of tidy resolutions.
  • What's more, informed consent may be a tidy legal concept, but it's arguable that a patient facing death without a new heart or kidney is no more capable of cool deliberation than .
  • Too many novels feel tidy, as if the world were neatly divisible into East and West, good and bad.
News & Articles

  • Road warriors: KRB invites community to help keep roadsides clean
    Individuals, groups and businesses in Rowlett wanting to play a part in keeping a tidy city are invited to adopt their own stretch of road.
    June 15, 2013 - The Rowlett Lakeshore Times
  • Goats back to tidy steep Seattle slopes
    SEATTLE (AP) — The goats have returned to munch their way through the blackberry bushes, thistles, nettles and long grasses that thrive in many steep areas of downtown Seattle. The Seattle Transportation Department hires the goat herd annually to help tidy up areas under the Alaskan Way Viaduct. The department says the areas are too steep for human crews to access easily and using the goats ...
    June 14, 2013 - The Wenatchee World
  • Manatee County couple dies in Panhandle crash
    Kurt and Pam Graetzer, who lived on Tidy Island, spent their free time helping the community's neediest children.
    June 14, 2013 - The Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Quotes

  • Steven Van Zandt in San Jose Mercury News
    Life doesn't have tidy little endings,said Van Zandt, a member of rocker Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. "Even some great songs just fade out like the last
  • Dana Perino in International Herald Tribune
    That's why we are having to urge strongly President Musharraf to get back on the path to the constitution,Perino said. "And the other political parties in Pakistan should all be working towards that goal together. It is not a tidy...
  • Richard Ashcroft in Mirror.co.uk
    Our reunion was more reassuring for our audience than a nice tidy situation,he says. "The personalities are who we are, so sh*t happens."

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