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stocking-stuffer n. a small gift that is suitable for putting inside a Christmas stocking.This will make the perfect stocking-stuffer.I got some little stocking- stuffers for the kids.
gift noun in a sex club, used as a coded euphemism for payment for special services US, 1997. ► the giftthe bleed period of the menstrual cycle US, 2001. ► the gift that keeps givinga sexually transmitted disease US, 1986
idiomgiftgift of the gab(also gift of gab AmE)the ability to talk in a way that entertains or persuades other people:I'm not someone with the gift of the gab - I don't have that kind of charm.Ratliff is a big, bluff man with a ready smile and an engaging gift of gab.God's gift to1 if someone thinks they are God's gift to a group of people or an activity, they behave in an annoying way that shows they think they are more important to that group or activity than they really are :He's captain of the football team, and he obviously thinks he's God's gift to women.By the age of 29, he'd won two Oscars and could be forgiven for thinking he was God's gift to acting.2 something that makes a situation much easier for a particular group of people:The Prime Minister's nose was God's gift to political cartoonists.The drug, which was welcomed at first as God's gift to pregnant women, produced serious birth defects in children.be in sb's gift BrEBrEif a job or opportunity is in someone's gift, they have the power to give it to whoever they like ◆ often used about politics, government etc:It is clear from the letter that Sir Winston considered that the post of Lord Chief Justice was in his gift.Just how much power did the Tudor monarch have over offices that were legally in his gift?
See:- a gift horse
- Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
- beware the Greeks bearing gifts
- don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- free gift
- get a fix
- get a gift
- get a gift of (something)
- gift horse
- gift of gab
- God's gift
- God's gift to
- God's gift to (something)
- God's gift to man
- God's gift to mankind
- God's gift to something
- God's gift to the world
- God's gift to women
- God's own gift to (something)
- Greeks bearing gifts, beware of/like
- have a gift for
- have a gift for (doing something)
- have the gift of (the) gab
- have the gift of gab
- in the gift of
- in the gift of (someone)
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- never look a gift horse in the mouth
- the gift of (the) gab
- the gift of gab
- the gift of the gab
- the gift of tongues
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