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To invent, create, or think of.
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Shelly stalled while she tried to come up with a good response.
Submitted on September 01, 2012
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- think over
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- turn out
- zoom past
- belly up
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- buy time
- by hand
- cloud nine
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- eat one's words
- fish or cut bait
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- give somebody pause
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- haul ass
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- in order
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- keep your hair on
- kick ass
- muckety muck
- off the bat
- old stick
- on thin ice
- one of those days
- out of order
- out to lunch
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