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To grow rapidly and out of control.
The town grows like Topsy after the railway age begins. The fortifications are now quite useless since the city has outgrown them.
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grow like Topsy — (informal) 1. Simply to grow, apparently from nothing (as Topsy in Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom s Cabin assumed she did) 2. (loosely) to grow in a random, indiscriminate or unplanned way • • • Main Entry: ↑grow … Useful english dictionary
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