nature of the beast
nounDefinitions
The unchangeable nature of something.
- In your pasture management program, you need to anticipate that goats will try to chew on just about anything; that's the nature of the beast.
- You need to roll with the punches; that's just the nature of the beast when you're doing a project like this one.
- This slight way of treating both his book and his ancestors nettled little Puddock – who never himself took a liberty, and expected similar treatment – but he knew Sturk, the nature of the beast, and he only bowed grandly […]
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for nature of the beast. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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