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📖 Определения и значения для слова nettle

📒 a wild plant with leaves that have pointed edges, are covered in fine hairs and sting (= cause you pain) if you touch them

  • The nettles had spread and now covered half the garden.
  • The butterflies lay their eggs on nettles.
  • There was an old car half buried in the nettles.

📒 to deal with a difficult situation without hesitating

  • The government now has the opportunity to grasp the nettle of prison reform.
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