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No longer needed or useful

Surplus to requirements

Containing more words than necessary

(British) No longer in employment because there is no more work available

(of a person) Without money, a job, or a place to live

Of a bygone era

Ancillary to that already existing, used, or possessed

Excessively abundant

Showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms

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No longer needed or useful

needed like a hole in the head

surplus to requirements

without rhyme or reason

able to be sacrificed

neither here nor there

not to the point

nothing to do with it

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“The original St John's Church became redundant in 1938 and was once threatened with demolition through road-widening.”

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Surplus to requirements

surplus to requirements

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“As they sit passively in front of their TV sets, they are barraged with redundant images.”

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Containing more words than necessary

with the gift of the gab

having kissed the Blarney stone

able to talk the hind legs off a donkey

having kissed the blarney stone

having kissed the Blarney Stone

excessively communicative

running on at the mouth

blessed with the gift of the gab

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“In comparison with the quantity of poetry actually produced, the amount of redundant commentary must be at least double.”

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(British) No longer in employment because there is no more work available

“On Friday last, 32 people that were made redundant left the company but these redundancies had been finalised before the takeover.”

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(of a person) Without money, a job, or a place to live

in reduced circumstances

in straitened circumstances

without two farthings to rub together

without two pennies to rub together

without a brass farthing

on skid row

without a red cent

as poor as a church mouse

unable to make ends meet

in penury

without two brass farthings to rub together

unable to keep the wolf from the door

itinerant

behind eight ball

in Chapter 11

without two pennies farthings to rub together

meager^US

without a shot in one's locker

meagre^UK

poor as a church mouse

scanty

in distressed circumstances

in financial difficulties

not having two pennies to rub together

not having two farthings to rub together

in a bad way

financially distressed

financially embarrassed

without means of support

without a penny to your name

without a penny to one's name

without a roof over one's head

in dire circumstances

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Of a bygone era

consigned to oblivion

primeval^US

primaeval^UK

water under the bridge

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Ancillary to that already existing, used, or possessed

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Excessively abundant

out of all proportion

not commensurate with

out of proportion to

relatively too small for

relatively too large for

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Showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms

labored^US

laboured^UK

jewelled^UK

jeweled^US

colored^US

coloured^UK

skillful^US

skilful^UK

gee-whizz

with all the extras

with all the options

with bells and whistles

aesthetic^UK

excessively ornamental

esthetic^US

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