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To recall; to cancel or call a halt to.
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The police called off the search for the missing boy.
Submitted on October 12, 2012
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- look for
- potter around
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- tick over
- tone down
- arm to the teeth
- as if
- as well
- been there, done that
- birds and bees
- blow off steam
- cut it out
- deafening silence
- deliver the goods
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- fear
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- labor of love
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- middle ground
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- nugget of truth
- odd and curious
- odds and ends
- off-color
- oh dark thirty
- one fell swoop
- pull one's weight
- push the envelope
- put together
- right on
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- rough around the edges
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- see red
- see someone through
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