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cough up
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To lose a competition by one's own mistakes, usually near the end of the contest.
"That team had the game won, but they coughed it up in the end."
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    Nearby phrases:  cotton on,  cotton to,  coug it,  could not get elected dogcatcher,  couldn't happen to a nicer,  count on


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