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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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- beside oneself
- big cheese
- burst someone's bubble
- bury the hatchet
- daily grind
- dead
- deafening silence
- eat one's words
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- get into trouble
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- hem and haw
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- one fell swoop
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- play old harry
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