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as cross as two sticks
vs
cantankerous
as cross as two sticks
cantankerous
adj
Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby.
How often have the words
as cross as two sticks
and
cantankerous
occurred in a corpus of books?
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