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carp

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To complain about a fault; to harp on.

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Some may feel that it's a bit rich of me to carp about diet restrictions when I'm vegetarian.

It's filled not with goldfish or carp, but "magoor maach (catfish) and rui maach (a fish loved in eastern states like West Bengal) - you are Bengali, you must know rui maach?", he grins.

She demands to see them every day, but is horrified when her parents, with the best intentions, give her three carp for her birthday instead of the cuddly toy she had been hoping for.This sets her thinking.

A PLAGUE of Asian carp afflicts the Midwest, wiping out native species and assaulting unsuspecting fishermen.

All the same, if an assault happened next month, or next year, Mr Bush's critics would carp on about three things.

This month the White House appointed a carp tsar to oversee the campaign.

Fish do not.Introduced in Arkansas in the 1970s, Asian carp have swum up the Mississippi River, eating and spawning ravenously.

The new carp tsar should ensure better co-ordination.

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