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To abandon or maroon.
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The mutineers cast away the ship's officers in the longboat.
Submitted on March 14, 2010
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- wind down
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- as all get-out
- at once
- cut and dried
- dead duck
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- go without saying
- haul his ashes
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- in evidence
- in line
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- make a decision
- middle ground
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- oh dark thirty
- on the nose
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