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Don't take any wooden nickels.
(USA) This idiom is used to advise people not to be cheated or ripped off.
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Well that didn't take long, did it?
("Boy, that didn't take long," said an amazed salesman).
Vikings 7-0 Bears Well that didn't take long.
JULIE BOSMAN After the Cheers, a Jeer That didn't take long.
"I will tell you that when JJ Abrams rang me to ask about filming Episode VII, one of the first things he said after he told me how wonderful I was — and that didn't take long — but he then said, 'Would you be interested in being in the film just doing the voice?' I said, 'No.' And he said, 'Right!' He knew I'd say that".
Update: that didn't take long.
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The result is a turkey that doesn't take long to cook and is full of taste.
Photograph: /Wikpedia Grand Junction & Colorado National Monument: From eshockley, who describes the monument as "not a statute, like many think, but a beautiful collection of canyons and monoliths that doesn't take long to drive through".
"Some callers said they liked the little stories that continued from day to day, because 'they are like little soap operas that don't take long to read,"' Connie Coyne, the paper's reader advocate, wrote on Nov. 22.
And, really, they've got all your content already--where are you going to go? Update 2/18/09: Well that didn't take long--this morning Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg announced that "we have decided to return to our previous terms of use while we resolve the issues that people have raised".
That did not take long.
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