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idioma stick to beat sb with BrEBrEused about something that people are using or giving attention to in order to harm, blame, or criticize a person or group:Testing children at primary school won't give their parents useful information, it will just give politicians another stick to beat the teachers with.Eliot's statement that a poet should be neutral has often been used as a stick to beat him with, by those who claim that it proves he did not oppose fascism.
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