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To come near to; to pass.
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Your beau came by while you were shopping.
Submitted on August 28, 2012
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- strike up
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- a drop in the bucket
- apple of somebody's eye
- at the wheel
- brush up
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- mind one's own business
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- no holds barred
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- not half bad
- nugget of truth
- on the pill
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