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To intensify one's efforts.
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It's 9:41, 58 degrees, and I'm flunking out. Time to bear down.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
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- bring forth
- bung up
- hold up
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- point out
- put away
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- run through
- run up against
- sneak up
- stamp out
- walk into
- a drop in the bucket
- baggage
- beauty sleep
- behind closed doors
- catch-as-catch-can
- cross someone's path
- daily grind
- dark horse
- dead on
- eye candy
- for goodness' sake
- from time to time
- give somebody what-for
- hand in hand
- hustle and bustle
- in evidence
- in light of
- in line
- in the hot seat
- it takes two to tango
- jump at the chance
- lie through one's teeth
- low-hanging fruit
- make a decision
- middle ground
- middle of the road
- no biggie
- not be caught dead
- of late
- off the mark
- oh dark thirty
- on one's toes
- one another
- one of those days
- out of house and home
- out of proportion
- out of the question
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- own up
- pay for it
- pencil-neck
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- sack out
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