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be the business

UK slang

Definition

to be extremely good or skilful: That new defender is the business!Informal words for goodGood, better and bestQuite good, or not very good
(Definition of be the business from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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