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As

The great Kiwi amplifier. Stick it after any adjective: cheap as, funny as, tired as. Nothing ever follows the 'as'.

"That kai was cheap as."

"I'm keen as for the weekend."

by Bren

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NZ's most exported grammatical quirk.

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