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rejection slip
noun
A standardized message notifying an author that his or her work has not been accepted for publication, ordinarily printed on a small piece of paper and attached to the returned manuscript.
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If a publisher, magazine, agent, or client has rejected your submission, query, or project, keep the rejection slip.
He had received a rejection slip.
In the form of a nasty putdown, a rejection slip or a banana.
It enraged me - the cold, callous rejection slip, impersonal and mocking.
But getting a rejection slip isn't the worst thing in the world.
Let me know', he may have sent her a rejection slip.
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When he rejected acting -- "I couldn't take all the rejection slips" -- he wound up working in what would become an endless series of jobs at printing companies.
More rejection slips.
Remember those hundred and twenty-two rejection slips!
The [publishers'] rejection slips were fascinating.
Writers measure time in rejection slips.
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