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fitting the bill
verb
Present participle of fit the bill
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Not fitting the bill, how did I get it?
So investors are looking for safer stocks, and utility companies are fitting the bill.
But in the absence of any significant competition, Will Alsop persists in fitting the bill.
For modeling the general intensity coefficient f(r), we have implemented the recent ideas given in the article Fitting the Bill, Nature [R. Howlett, Fitting the bill, Nature 439 (2006) 402], which describes the geographical spread of epidemics due to transportation of poultry products.
Matthew Parris Writer, The Times,,When Zadie Smith said: "I would love to meet a nice, reasonable, intelligent Conservative who's a lovely person, but where are they?", Matthew Parris was put forward as fitting the bill.
This definition of addiction was not always carefully applied (it took years for alcohol and nicotine to be classified as addictive, despite their fitting the bill), nor did it turn out to be accurate.
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"Bill (Gates) would fit the bill".
Rose fits the bill.
John Lennon fit the bill.
Iceland fits the bill.
Biden fit the bill.
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