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1a small garden tool with a curved blade for lifting plants and digging holes
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- 2a small tool with a flat blade, used in building for spreading cement or plaster Idioms
to talk about someone or something in a way that makes them or it seem much better or much worse than they really are; to exaggerate something He was laying the flattery on with a trowel.
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