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worlds noun commerically manufactured cigarettes US, 1990
idiomworlds(have/get) the best of both worldsused in order to say that by combining two situations, ways of doing things etc, you are getting all their advantages, and none of their disadvantages:Now I have the best of both worlds. I can keep up my career and still spend time with my daughter.If you like a gas cooker, but wish you didn't have to deal with the oven, you can get the best of both worlds with a gas cooking top and an an electric oven.opposite the worst of both worlds: This legislation discourages tobacco companies from building factories here, yet allows them to continue advertising, giving us the worst of both worlds.be worlds apart(also be a world apart)to be very different:Wayne's and Huston's methods of filming were worlds apart and they clashed frequently.The goods stocked by the shops in the city were a world apart from what you could get in Mr Baker's corner store in Woodstock.
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