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To rescue, especially financially.
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Once again, the industry got itself in trouble and government had to bail it out.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
Modified by acronimous on May 09, 2021
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- take back
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- vote in
- belly up
- babe in arms
- bad egg
- be all ears
- bury the hatchet
- by hand
- call a spade a spade
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- come hell or high water
- creature comfort
- cut and dried
- don't get me started
- even money
- fall off a truck
- feather in one's cap
- flesh out
- fly off the handle
- for the time being
- forty winks
- gear up
- give somebody an earful
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- go red
- go without saying
- goose is cooked
- grain of salt
- hard of hearing
- haul his ashes
- hold somebody's hand
- in its infancy
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