beefed out »
Having been improved greatly or upgraded; beefed up.
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beyond one's pay grade »
Beyond one's capability.
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beyond one's pay grade »
Beyond one's level of authority.
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bump up »
To promote a person to a higher grade.
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climb up »
To make a gradual ascent or increase.
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climb up »
To gradually ascend something.
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do a slow burn »
To experience a gradually increasing feeling of anger or frustration.
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drift off »
To fall asleep in a gradual manner.
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fade out »
decrease gradually
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home in on »
To focus or narrow down to something; to find or draw closer, as by trial and error or a gradual seeking process.
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in process of time »
In the course of time; as time goes on; gradually; in due course.
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long goodbye »
Nickname for Alzheimer's disease, especially for the final phase of the disease, during which the patient suffers a progressive decline of cognitive and motor skills and gradually loses the ability to recognize and to communicate with family and friends.[1]; nickname for the relationship between a person suffering from Alzheimer's disease and that person's family or friends.
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make the grade »
To prove satisfactory; to be successful or worthy of merit.
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pare down »
To reduce by paring or a similar gradual process.
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pass out »
To graduate, usually marked by the ceremony at the end of their training.
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rub it in »
To add insult to injury; to emphasize one's strengths or another's weaknesses in a manner that degrades another.
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slow burn »
A gradually increasing feeling of anger or frustration.
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step down »
To gradually reduce something, a little at a time, as an electronic step down transformer.
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take its toll »
To affect, especially negatively; to damage or degrade; to cause destruction.
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taper off »
To diminish or lessen gradually; to become smaller, slower, quieter, etc.
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two wrongs don't make a right »
(ethics) A wrongful action is not a morally appropriate way to correct or cancel a previous wrongful action.1915, William MacLeod Raine, The Highgrader, ch. 15:"But when it comes to taking what belongs to another
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walk the line »
To participate in the procession at a graduation ceremony; to graduate.
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work out »
To extract gradually.
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