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treat like dirt



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Idioms and Phrases

Behave badly or show contempt toward, as in Her boss treats all the secretaries like dirt . This idiom uses dirt in the sense of “something worthless,” a usage dating from the mid-1300s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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