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Peanuts
a humorous US cartoon strip (=a set of drawings that tell a story in a newspaper or magazine) by Charles Schultz, about a boy called Charlie Brown, who is nice but not very confident and often unlucky. Other characters include his dog Snoopy, his sister Sally, and his friends Lucy, Linus, Pigpen, Peppermint Patty, and Schroeder.

peanuts
{noun}
1 [countable] a pale brown nut in a thin shell which grows under the ground [= groundnut]:
a packet of roasted peanuts

2 peanuts informal a very small amount of money:
The hotel workers get paid peanuts.
I'm tired of working for peanuts.


you'd
1 the short form of 'you had':
If you'd been more careful, this wouldn't have happened.

2 the short form of 'you would':
You'd be amazed at how much she spends on clothes.

merely
{adverb}
1 used to emphasize how small or unimportant something or someone is [= only]:
He's merely a boy - you can't expect him to understand.
2 used to emphasize that nothing more than what you say is involved [= just]:
We're merely good friends.
He merely shrugged and walked away.

• not merely/rather than merely

used before the less important of two ideas in a sentence to emphasize the more important idea:
It's not merely a matter of cost, but whether she's old enough to go on holiday alone.
It's important to write these goals down, rather than merely think about them.