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Let's get started! Learning English with one of the most popular series in the world, Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling . Chapter 1: The Boy Who Lived Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense . The last part of the sentence we have a phrasal verb. "they just didn't hold with such nonsense." - This expression means that they don't have any patience with nonsense things. P hrasal verb:  hold with hold with something = to approve with something (Generally used in negative sentences or in questions) Synonym Approve "She  doesn't hold with  the use of the force" Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large