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get the nod
Idioms and Phrases
Receive approval or assent, as in, The contestant got the nod from the judges . Similarly give the nod means “to show approval or assent.” These expressions allude to the quick inclination of the head to indicate approval. [First half of 1900s]Example Sentences
They take turns guessing who else will get the nod.
CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner and Carlos Beltrán are among the other former players who could get the nod this year.
Emery confirmed that Duran replaced Watkins at half-time on Tuesday due to the Englishman picking up a "small injury", so Duran could get the nod against Nottingham Forest on Saturday.
KPC is leasing the land for the hotel from Kroenke under a long-term agreement and went through a competitive process to get the nod from the landlord to be the hotelier for Hollywood Park.
He only managed to win one election in his entire life – and that was a fluke brought about because of a convergence of strange events; The Bernie Bros left Philadelphia angry and ready to either not vote or to vote for Trump because Bernie Sanders didn’t get the nod over Hillary Clinton.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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