grow like topsy

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To grow rapidly and out of control

Why has National Strategies been allowed to grow like Topsy in some respects, and at the same time become even more complex, making it difficult for teachers to take in the amount of guidance that they receive?.

grow like topsy

    Hyphenation

    Grow like topsy

    Turkish pronunciation

    grō layk täpsi

    Pronunciation

    /ˈgrō ˈlīk ˈtäpsē/ /ˈɡroʊ ˈlaɪk ˈtɑːpsiː/

    Etymology

    () After a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin|Uncle Tom's Cabin]] (1852), who, asked about God, says "I s'pect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me." The sense of excessive out-of-control growth is a misunderstanding.
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