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to be equivalent to; to reduce to.
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It all boils down to one thing: self-discipline!
Submitted on August 23, 2012
Modified by acronimous on April 24, 2023
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- beauty sleep
- big cheese
- blow off steam
- brush up
- catch a tan
- chip off the old block
- cloud nine
- elbow room
- full speed ahead
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- get one's claws into
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- off-color
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- on the nose
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