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To attempt something new or different, but related.
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Submitted on September 01, 2012
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- apple of somebody's eye
- apply oneself
- at the ready
- be all ears
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- hard of hearing
- haul his ashes
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- jolly someone along
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- middle of the road
- morning, noon and night
- no biggie
- not half bad
- object lesson
- on board
- on the horn
- on the right track
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- one another
- out of house and home
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