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Idioms and Phrases
Arrange, bring about, as in We'll try to work it so that the board meets tomorrow . [ Colloquial ; late 1800s]Example Sentences
Reed, who grew up in Houston, uses colorful phrases and acknowledges the hard work it took to reach this point in his career.
For any of this representative democracy stuff to work, it has to mean something when GOP politicians look up from nibbling on the scraps of the president's long-forgotten past grievances and say, "I smell a rat."
“But mostly, I’m just happy for them. I know how much work it is, I know how hard it is to do something like this, and they’ve done it — and they have more to come, but they’ve taken that big step.â€
Based on one of Lennon's old demo tapes, and featuring an archive recording of Harrison's guitar work, it went to number one and was nominated for awards at the Brits and the Grammys.
Since people on benefits generally have less money than those in work, it also means less spending on the High Street.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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