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To begin to feel the effects of a recreational drug.
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I could tell from her expression she was coming up already.
Submitted on April 20, 2011
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- check is in the mail
- cheek by jowl
- come hell or high water
- deafening silence
- fear
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- fresh start
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- full speed ahead
- gear up
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- go without saying
- gray area
- in light of
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- keep your hair on
- kick ass
- let her rip
- middle of nowhere
- muckety muck
- not half bad
- of late
- on its merits
- out of house and home
- out of line
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- over one's head
- pardon my french
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