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To haul or bring out forcefully or as though with force.
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She dragged out her old Spanish textbooks in an attempt to prepare for her trip.
Submitted on May 18, 2010
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- bury the hatchet
- catch-as-catch-can
- chip off the old block
- common-or-garden
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- day in, day out
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- down to the wire
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- hard of hearing
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- long row to hoe
- low-hanging fruit
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