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landslide

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1. landslide - Noun

2. landslide - Verb

Meaning

The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.

The land which slips down.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I have just received the following wire from my generous daddy: "Dear Jack – Don't buy a single vote more than necessary – I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide." John F. Kennedy

In the eighties, a self-assured knucklehead whose unsurpassable hollowness and hackneyed sentiments and absolute blindness to every historical complexity became the object of national worship and, esteemed as a "great communicator” no less, won each of his two terms in a landslide. Philip Roth

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time. Margaret Cho

She abandoned her dance school and other business to become a sanyasin, but death took her unawares: she was killed in a landslide while on a pilgrimage to Kailash-Mansarovar. Oddly enough even as a sanyasin she was accompanied by one of her lovers. Protima Bedi

We're going to win by a landslide. It will be the biggest surprise in recent American political history. It will rekindle the whole question on why the media played this race as a nailbiter where in fact Romney's going to win by quite a bit. Dick Morris

After a landslide one more can be expected. Faroese Proverb

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