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Phrase
  1. 1
    A traditional phrase said by each of the prospective spouses during a wedding ceremony in order to accept the marriage.

    "They'd been pushing for me to get pregnant ever since I said "I do." And now that I was, do you think they were happy? No way."

  2. 2
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see I, do.

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"They'd been pushing for me to get pregnant ever since I said "I do." And now that I was, do you think they were happy? No way."

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