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Charlie Brown's Christmas tree
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English
Etymology
thumb|A sad-looking Charlie Brown Christmas tree
See en Charlie Brown tree.
Pronunciation
en /ˈtʃɑːli bɹaʊns ˈkɹɪsməs tɹiː/ RP
en /ˈtʃɑɹli bɹaʊns ˈkɹɪsməs tɹi/ GA
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en Char lie Brown's Christ mas tree
Noun
Charlie Brown's Christmas tree
en Charlie Brown tree.
en Wendell J. Powell I ’Twas the Nite before Christmas – 1997 12 Spiritual Voices [Bloomington, Ind.] w:Xlibris 2002 23 https://books.google.com/books?id=omfNlimmRoMC&pg=PA23 978-1-4010-7698-6 Oh yes, 'twas the night before Christmas, / and it was a horrible site to see. / Things were looking sadder than Charlie Brown's / Christmas tree. / But hark! There was hope, and all was not lost.
en Steven L. Layne Acknowledgments Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers Portland, Me. Stenhouse Publishers 2009 xv–xvi https://books.google.com/books?id=MI7SiGQTnHsC&pg=PT15 978-1-57110-385-7 When Rick laughs near me, the ground quakes because he is a California redwood, and I am Charlie Brown's Christmas tree. Now that I have won, he will not laugh. He will instead quietly pay for a very expensive dinner in a restaurant with no prices on the menu … and I will laugh. Though the story of the bet is true, beyond that has been Rick's earnest encouragement for me to move this book forward.
en Marilyn Peake 14 https://books.google.com/books?id=KqZADwAAQBAJ&pg=PT91 Blood and Ashes: A Paranormal Romance Novel [s.n.] Marilyn Peake 2017 Walking around the dwarfed trees with bare spots throughout their branches, I commented that they reminded me of Charlie Brown's Christmas trees.
Anagrams
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en eponyms
en Christmas Trees