all fired up »
Excited or energized; highly enthusiastic.
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autem mort »
A married woman; also a female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity.
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backseat driver »
By extension, anybody offering unsolicited or unwelcome advice.
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box the compass »
To know, and be able to recite the 32 points and quarter points of the magnetic compass from North, both clockwise and anticlockwise.
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carried away »
Made excessively emotional or excited.
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check out »
Used to draw attention to something and stimulate excitement about it.
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cite chapter and verse »
To provide specific references from an authoritative book, as the Bible or a book of statutes or rules, to support a statement.
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cite chapter and verse »
To speak authoritatively, providing detailed factual information.
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cool one's jets »
To become less excited, intense, or active.
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cream in one's jeans »
To experience an orgasm while clothed; to be thoroughly excited or delighted.
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drive-by media »
Media professionals who "spray" a bunch of repetitive misstatements, mistaken and misinterpreted news reports to cause excitement and confusion. They then figuratively "drive off" leaving the cleanup of their mess and hysteria to others, to correct and properly explain and interpret.
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eager beaver »
Who is very excited or enthusiastic to begin a task.
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fire up »
To excite; to infuse with energy.
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flutter in the dovecote »
I further argued that the principal cause for the political deadlock that persisted for thirty years after the guns fell silent was Israeli intransigence rather than Arab intransigence. The appearance of the first wave of revisionist studies excited a great deal of interest and controversy in the media and more than a flutter in the academic dovecote. — Israel Confronts Its Past.
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for kicks »
In order to obtain pleasure or excitement; for fun.
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