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Mean business

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  1. 1
    To be serious, especially where achieving a specific end against opposition is concerned. idiomatic

    "Say in a week from now, I will undertake to deliver this most marvellous masterpiece, if 'Look here, 'Tony, I mean business, if you don't."

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