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new wrinkle
Idioms and Phrases
A clever device or expedient, a novelty, as in The players added a new wrinkle to victory celebrations by tossing their shirts to the crowd after the game . In the form of simply a wrinkle , this expression dates from the mid-1700s, new being added two centuries later.Example Sentences
Missouri Republicans are making a similar argument now鈥攚ith a new wrinkle.
On Jan. 1, 1967, the Packers beat the Cowboys in Dallas 34-27 for their second straight NFL title, but there was a new wrinkle.
That would be a new wrinkle in a field that at this point is virtually nothing but wrinkles.
The only new wrinkle was including Mikey Day as Donald Trump, Jr., who laments about Vance, 鈥淚t鈥檚 almost like my dad picked me to be vice president鈥. But he didn鈥檛.鈥
Another noxious new wrinkle is efforts to prevent pregnant women from leaving antiabortion states to obtain abortions where they鈥檙e legal.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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