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To soil or dirty; to mess up; to clog.
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The sandpaper strips off the old green paint, but it gunks up quickly.
Submitted on March 17, 2011
More phrases:
- hand in
- mess with
- narrow down
- square up
- take down
- taper off
- think up
- all walks of life
- by heart
- cream of the crop
- crown jewels
- dead on
- deliver the goods
- dyed-in-the-wool
- give somebody an earful
- give somebody pause
- go out on a limb
- grace period
- half a mind
- hand in hand
- hand in hand
- hang out one's shingle
- have a cow
- if needs be
- in black and white
- in evidence
- in one's cups
- keep a lid on
- keep quiet
- lemon law
- make believe
- middle ground
- nugget of truth
- object lesson
- on top of the world
- one-off
- out of house and home
- out of proportion
- own up
- pencil-neck
- piffy on a rock bun
- point the finger at
- pound sand
- rain cheque
- raise the bar
- ride roughshod over
- run out of steam
- second banana
- small fry
- so much as
- so there
- sob story
- spanner
- take a breather
- take the lead
- thanks a bunch
- the upper hand
- thin-skinned
- to die for
- turn to stone
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