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To rescue, especially financially.
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Once again, the industry got itself in trouble and government had to bail it out.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
Modified by acronimous on May 09, 2021
More phrases:
- cave in
- knock down
- knock out
- live up
- make out
- point out
- take to
- wolf down
- zero in on
- apple of somebody's eye
- at a loss for words
- bet dollars to donuts
- bite one's tongue
- brass ring
- call it quits
- cooking with gas
- dead on
- do-or-die
- dog and pony show
- dry run
- face to face
- for goodness' sake
- free-for-all
- full speed ahead
- get it
- grunt work
- hang out one's shingle
- have a word with
- in one hell of a hurry
- jolly someone along
- kiss of death
- lucky break
- make a decision
- make an honest woman
- make fun of
- night owl
- not in kansas anymore
- odds and ends
- of late
- on board
- on thin ice
- out to lunch
- pound the pavement
- push the envelope
- put one over
- rainy day
- run hot and cold
- run into the ground
- salad years
- see eye to eye
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- smart off
- so there
- sob story
- spruce up
- take one's time
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- third degree
- time after time
- tooth and nail
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