place to be in English

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          "ref": "2011, Sarah Parr, Cal Poly 2012",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Paul Elliott Rock, Drugs and Politics",
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        "(idiomatic) A great, trendy, or perfectly suitable place"
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      "form": "the place to be",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Paul Elliott Rock, Drugs and Politics",
          "text": "Indeed, one of the problems of deviant communities in San Francisco is coping with the periodic influx of a new generation of bohemians who have heard that it is the place to be: the beatnik migration of the late fifties and the hippie hordes of 1967.",
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"place to be" meaning in English

Noun