strong

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 467 words | Copyright

strong strong meat something acceptable only to strong or instructed minds; often with biblical allusion to Hebrews 5:12, ‘ye…are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.’
strong verb a verb (of Germanic origin) forming the past tense and past participle by means of a change of vowel in the stem rather than by the addition of a suffix (e.g. swim, swam, swum).

See also the race is not to the swift, not the battle to the strong.

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