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top and tail
Definition
to cut off the hard parts at each end of a fruit or vegetable when you prepare it for cooking
Top and tail the beans.
(Definition of top and tail from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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