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To say that a situation needs a thing, or a solution urgently.
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This state of affairs is crying out for an independent investigation.
Submitted on August 29, 2012
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- start up
- step up
- stuff up
- tell apart
- vote in
- at a stand
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- bet dollars to donuts
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- oh dark thirty
- on edge
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- pardon my french
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- piffy on a rock bun
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