arse about face »
Something that is placed or arranged the opposite way to the way it should be.
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beg off »
To avoid, or cancel some event that one has previously arranged with someone.
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call out »
To arrange for a professional to call at your home for some purpose.
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cry off »
To cancel something that one has previously arranged with someone.
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golden handcuffs »
Any arrangement or agreement designed to provide extremely favorable benefits or pay, so as to discourage participant from wanting to leave, especially to retain a choice employee.
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lay out »
To arrange in a certain way.
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meet up »
To meet somebody, by arrangement.
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out of place »
Not in the proper situation or arrangement, or inappropriate for the circumstances.
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plump up »
To shake or arrange so as to be fatter or more evenly distributed.
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put back »
To postpone an arranged event or appointment.
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rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic »
To do something pointless or insignificant that will soon be overtaken by events, or that contributes nothing to the solution of a current problem.
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set up shop »
To physically arrange a shop or workplace.
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shotgun »
A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line. Mostly heard in the southern United States.
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spruce up »
To dress or arrange smartly, elegantly, and neatly.
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upset the applecart »
To spoil carefully laid plans or arrangements; to spoil something.
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