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To hunch over and pull in one's arms and legs.
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Her son balls up in fear whenever there is a storm.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
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- zoom down
- add fuel to the fire
- been to the rodeo
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- no frills
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- oh dark thirty
- old school
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