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be grown up
adjective
Covered by growth; overgrown.
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Until we stop killing our way towards it, we won't be grown up as human beings.
He found a personal hero in the early socialist Alexander Herzen, who in the play says: "Until we stop killing our way towards [Utopia], we won't be grown up as human beings".
You have to be grown up".
Can't we just be grown up?
We need to be grown up about it.
That's what it meant to be "grown up".
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Smith: "That would be grown-up, adult to adult".
The portrayal of sexuality is to me something you'd have to be grown-up to appreciate.
Yesterday, Compaq introduced several devices meant to be grown-up toys this holiday season, using a new iPaq brand.
"Sometimes we will have disagreements but you have got to be grown-up about it," he says.
Ukip's own founder, Alan Sked, has been scathing about his erstwhile colleagues and advised the public to be grown-up and vote Tory.
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