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To come towards, to approach.
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I was standing on the corner when Nick came up and asked for a cigarette.
Submitted on September 01, 2012
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- wear off
- a different ballpark
- bright line
- call it quits
- dyed-in-the-wool
- eat one's words
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- oh dark thirty
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- on top of the world
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