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you can't make bricks without straw
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(Definition of you can't make bricks without straw from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Being important and having importance
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- Importance - general words
- Important people and describing important people
- Irrelevant
- Of little or less importance
- People of little importance
- Things needed for a task
- Things of little importance
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you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs idiom
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SMART Thesaurus: Important and essential things
Synonyms and related words:
- -based suffix (MAIN PART)
- amenity noun
- be-all noun
- big league noun
- biggie noun
- building block noun
- core noun (IMPORTANT PART)
- flagship noun (BEST PRODUCT)
- heavyweight noun
- hot button noun
- kernel noun (IMPORTANT PART)
- keynote noun
- keystone noun (IMPORTANT PART)
- lifeblood noun
- pivot noun
- prerequisite noun
- priority noun
- requisite noun
- sine qua non noun
- supply noun
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