Phrase guide
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noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see exercise, for, the, reader.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A matter left to the addressee's judgement to decide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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History
From academic writing. One of the first known recorded occurrences of this phrase is in An Elementary Course of Mathematics by Thomas Stephens Davies, Stephen Fenwick, and William Rutherford from 1853.
