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cook upTo manufacture; to falsify; to devise an elaborate lie.Rate it:

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cook offTo pull the pin from a grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing.Rate it:

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cook upTo prepare a heroin dose by heating.Rate it:

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Cook Your GooseTo bring someone down, spoil someone’s quality time or to wreck a happy plan or projectRate it:

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cookThe head cook of a manor houseRate it:

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cookA fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.Rate it:

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cookA session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.Rate it:

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cookOne who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.Rate it:

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cookA person who prepares food for a living.Rate it:

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cook offTo cause an accidental detonation of explosives, especially due to excess heat.Rate it:

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cook offAs with above, except to unintentionally wait so long that the grenade detonates.Rate it:

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cook offTo accidentally detonate, especially as the result of excess heat.Rate it:

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cook the booksTo manipulate accounting information, esp. illegally, by a corporation.Rate it:

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cook upTo prepare a meal.Rate it:

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cook up a stormTo create a stormy situation; agitate or enrage.Rate it:

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cook up a stormTo do a large amount of cooking at once; to prepare a great deal of cooked food.Rate it:

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cook up a stormTo cause a storm.Rate it:

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cook up a stormTo make a big fuss, generate a lot of unnecessary talk or activity; make a scene.Rate it:

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cook up a stormTo make a splash; to create a spectacle.Rate it:

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put onTo cook or warm.Rate it:

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boys will be boysIt is hard, often fruitless, to attempt to curb the natural playfulness and tendency to mischief of most growing boys.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13But just then there was a slight altercation between Master Tommy and Master Jacky. Boys will be boys and our two twins were no exception to this golden rule.Even grown men usually remain somewhat boyish in heart"Boys will be boys", grinned grandpa while he joined his adult son playing with the fancy train-set he gave his grandson for Christmas while the kid was in school.Rate it:

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boil upTo cook by boiling.Rate it:

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cookedsimple past tense and past participle of cookRate it:

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doTo cook.Rate it:

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elle fait une bonne cuisine bourgeoiseShe is a good plain cook.Rate it:

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hash slingerA cook or food server in a cheap restaurant, especially one who is discourteous or inattentive to customers.Rate it:

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it's not the whistle that pulls the trainBoasting and loud talk should not be mistaken for the work that produces real achievements; bravado is no proof of action.1956, James Reston, "Washington: It's Not the Whistle that Pulls the Train," New York Times, 1 July, p. E8:Rate it:

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meals on wheelsFood delivered to the homes of those unable to cook for themselves.Rate it:

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patience of jobFrom the Bible, James Ch.5 V.11.Rate it:

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smoke upTo cook by smoking.Rate it:

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toss upTo cook something quickly.Rate it:

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