fire escape »
emergency exit
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fire off »
To ask an unexpected question rapidly.
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fire up »
To excite; to infuse with energy.
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firm up »
To make muscles more toned through physical exercise.
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first class »
excellent
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first rate »
Superb, exceptional; of the best sort; very high quality.
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fishing expedition »
A non-specific search for information, especially incriminating information.
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fit as a fiddle »
Perfectly fit; in excellent health.
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flat chat »
Extremely busy.
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flight of fancy »
An idea, narrative, suggestion, etc. which is extremely imaginative and which appears to be entirely unrealistic, untrue, or impractical; thinking which is very speculative.
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flip one's lid »
To be explosively angry.
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flog a dead horse »
To attempt to get extra work out of a ship's crew during the dead horse period.
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flogging the land »
Damaging agricultural land through excessive grazing or clearing.
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flower »
The best examples or representatives of a group.
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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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