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To accumulate, to pile up.
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Every since the secretary left, the letters in my inbox have started to build up.
Submitted on March 06, 2011
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- above board
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- be-all and end-all
- beat around the bush
- big cheese
- brass ring
- cake crumbs
- call it quits
- cream of the crop
- dead as a doorknob
- dead on
- easy as pie
- easy does it
- fly off the handle
- fresh start
- from the word go
- give in
- goose is cooked
- haul ass
- head-in-the-sand
- king
- mind one's own business
- nervous as a cat
- no holds barred
- not in kansas anymore
- oh dark thirty
- on board
- on hold
- on the nose
- party pooper
- piss up a rope
- play old harry
- pump iron
- put together
- raise the bar
- right on
- run hot and cold
- run out of steam
- see eye to eye
- silly money
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- stars in one's eyes
- take a breather
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