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lean and mean	Efficient because of having nothing in excess of what is needed, and single-minded in one's objective.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
mean the world to	To be loved or cared about a great deal by.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
treat them mean, keep them keen	A woman will be more interested in a man if he is not kind to her.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
stand for	To mean; to symbolize; to represent.	(4.00 / 2 votes)
be on about	Talk about; mean, intend.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
get at	mean, intend	(0.00 / 0 votes)
hold your fire	Do not discharge your weapon. Used originally for weapons needing a spark or lighting of a fuse to ignite gunpowder, now sometimes used to mean any weapon launching a projectile.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
peachy keen	Extremely good, exactly right; all right. Often used in the negative or with an ironic or sarcastic connotation to mean the opposite.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
the jig is up	An expression used to mean "We have been caught out and have no defence", or if spoken to a person who's just been found out as the perpetrator of an offense, it means "You've been discovered.".	(0.00 / 0 votes)

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