Not to be sneezed at


Also found in: Idioms.
not to be despised or contemned; not to be treated lightly.
- Prof. Wilson.

See also: Sneeze

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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