(literally, US politics) A statute enacted by the United States Congress.
Does it take an act of Congress just to get a stop sign on a corner?
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(idiomatic, US, chiefly, _, colloquial) An authorization that is extremely difficult to obtain, especially in a timely fashion.
Should Frederick stick around — and apparently it would take an act of Congress to get him out of the ICU — he might take up where Molly had brutally left off.
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The aesthetic vocabulary of how people dress now — quiet luxury, coquette, mob wife, coastal grandmother, Y2K core, and every "-core" that came after.
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