Idea
Idea noun - Something imagined or pictured in the mind.
Tender
Tender noun - Something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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The clerk had no idea what paper money was... and, as it turns out, no one would accept cash as legal tender (even the police had to take the money to a lab to verify that it was, in fact, money).
Source: What Are Records? - Terry England's Rewind (Terry England) uses the plight of seventeen adults who get 'rewound' to the tender age of nine to drive home the idea that children have absolutely no rights and are utterly dependant on others to do the right thing.
Source: Anvilicious / Literature -
Oingo Boingo uses the idea for one of their renditions of Tender Lumplings with a heavy lean toward the cynical.
Source: The Promised Land
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