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The High Cheese in English
The word cheese has been used in the english language to mean a whole lot of different things, hasn't it? Graan. In british english, something as cheese means it'sa first rate, it's top notch. The expression the big cheese probably got introduced into english from hindy urdu or farcy where the word c h i z cheese means thing. And dry casaho which means literally three cheeses high. If you're talking about a little kid, you can say they're the same size as three staceels. I think my for old is a fir caso he wore. He's four cheese ches. A lot cheaper than collecting expensive wine labels
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