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• Ventilated, or hung out to dry
• Stated emphatically
• Exposed to breeze for freshening - say damp clothes
• Declared solemnly to be true
• That's dry and ruddy well first-rate
• Is the top of 14 down firstrate when it's dry?
• It's just a shade first-rate and dry
• As a revolutionary, first-rate, but not a wet one
• What a fired-rate, dry revolutionary!
• That's ruddy first-rate and dry
• The revolutionary seems first-rate and quite dry
• That first-rate colour is nice and dry
• First-rate and ruddy well dry
• Made public in sundry ways?
• That's a first-rate colour now that it's dry