stand in
verboEn español: hacer las veces, formar
- To substitute for; to replace
- to serve as an understudy.
- To make one of a party in a bet or other speculation.
- To take a side in a dispute.
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I came a thousand miles to stand in this door to-night, and it’s worth it if my old partner turns up.”
However, there came a day when I forgot to do this, and, being caught in a rainstorm, before I thought of the danger my joints had rusted, and I was left to stand in the woods until you came to help me.
You stand in the way not merely of an individual, but of a mighty organization, the full extent of which you, with all your cleverness, have been unable to realize.
I tell you that I will never stand in the dock.
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