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pedestal

A pedestal is a platform that holds up objects such as statues and vases.

pedestal

(= base) a support or foundation the base of the lamp an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority) they put him on a pedestal

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Stand under the pedestal.
It's good I didn't carry the pedestal myself, or look where I'd be now.
I'll put up a special pedestal and crown it with a figure of your Christ carved from the finest marble.
Pretty soon, the pedestal wobbles and then topples.
While you are on this pedestal of moral indignation you seem to have forgotten that you are as involved as I am.
In fact, they put women on a pedestal.
Do any of you feel that you're on a pedestal?
I put women on a pedestal, I do.
We'll topple the Aizu clan from its pedestal!
Mmm, use that table as a pedestal.
Well here at Epsom we take up the running with 50 yards of this mile and a half race to go and it's the wash basin in the lead from WC Pedestal.
I like to put 'em on a pedestal, you know?
I'll put you on a pedestal.
I'd put Eva on a pedestal! - Yes, but then you're such a good old idiot, John!
Now, wouldn't I look silly standing on a pedestal.
From my pedestal, others seemed so small.
Am I a statue on a pedestal?
You're a bad teacher, yet your students always see you on a pedestal.
But I also want you up on a pedestal where you belong.
I couldn't possibly break down. I was raised on a pedestal.
Help me off the pedestal.
You stand above all people, really high on a pedestal, as the sweetest and best person on this earth.
We were near a group of stone figures on a fairly high pedestal.
She's not its mistress, and it's huddling because of the narrow pedestal.
Well, how about it, girls? Do any of you feel that you're on a pedestal?
How much for the pedestal?
He wants the pedestal too.
At three o'clock I should be back on my pedestal.
We were near a group of stone figures on a fairly high pedestal. A man and a woman in classical dress. Their frozen gestures seemed to dramatize some specific scene.
Even he has a pedestal.
Let the statesman decide on the statesman, whether he is to stand on a pedestal in a tailcoat or in a toga like the Emperor Augustus.
Use that table as a pedestal.
Hey, you are affirmative and will like this pedestal wireless but it has already damaged completely a heap of garbage waiter, you really did not experience he is attending the game are you attending the big match of highway?
Behind the statue there on the pedestal.
My wife thought I put her on a pedestal, but you had to.
They wouldn't put me on a pedestal. so I'm laying them on a slab!
Looks like I've fallen off that pedestal you put people on. Strictly pass or fail, isn't it?
You put her on a pedestal.

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The Argentine football star nearly rose to that lofty pedestal.
Indeed, economics has been placed on a pedestal and enshrined in institutions like central banks and competition authorities, which have been intentionally separated and made independent from politics.
The dollar has been knocked off its pedestal by the crisis, but any conceivable substitute is obviously even more flawed and more problematical.

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