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drag something out
Delay a decision by dragging, stretching, extending the conversation by injecting incidentals or humdrum history/misinformation/disproved calculations and extrapolations:
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drain the swamp when up to one's neck in alligators
(idiomatic) When performing a long and complex task, and when you've gotten utterly immersed in secondary and tertiary unexpected tangential subtasks, it's easy to lose sight of the initial objective. This sort of distraction can be particularly problematic if the all-consuming subtask or sub-subtask is not, after all, particularly vital to the original, primary goal, but ends up sucking up time and resources (out of all proportion to its actual importance) only because it seems so urgent.
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draw out
To make something last for more time than is necessary; prolong; extend.
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draw out
To extract, bring out, as concealed information; elicit; educe.
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draw out
To use means to entice or force to be more open or talkative.
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draw out
To improve a losing hand to a winning hand by receiving additional cards.
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draw out
To physically extract, as blood from a vein.
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drive out
Out of somewhere.
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drop out
Used other than as an idiom: see drop, out.
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drop out
Prematurely and voluntarily leave (school, a race, or the like).
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drop out of warp
Dis-engage the cruise control on the car
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drown out
To cover, obscure, or hide by being louder than.
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dry out
To have excess water evaporate or be otherwise removed.
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dry out
To sober up; to cease to be drunk.
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duck out
To depart quickly or exit abruptly, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded.
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duck out
To depart quickly or exit abruptly by way of, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded.
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duck out
To move or act so as to achieve avoidance, escape, or evasion.
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duke it out
To argue heavily or at length.
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duke it out
To fight, especially with the fists.
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dummy out
From a video game in the process of localizing that game from a foreign country.
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e pluribus unum
A national motto of the United States of America, meaning "From many, one", or "out of many, one", referring to the integration of 13 independent colonies into one country, and that has taken an additional meaning, giving the pluralistic nature of American society from immigration.
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eat one's heart out
To feel overwhelming sorrow, jealousy or longing, to grieve.
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eat one's young
To betray a constituent or charge out of self-serving interests or desperation; savaging.
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eat out
To dine at a restaurant or such public place.
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eat out
To perform cunnilingus.
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eat out of somebody's hand
To behave in a docile, submissive way towards somebody.
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eat out of someone's hand
To behave in a docile, submissive way towards somebody.
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eat someone out of house and home
C. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II Scene I.
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eat someone out of house and home
To consume such a portion of one's store of food that little is left for the owner.
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edge out
To win in a contest or a game by a narrow margin of victory.
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empty promise
A promise that is either not going to be carried out, worthless or meaningless.
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end up
To conclude, turn out, sometimes unexpectedly.
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everything happens for a reason
All events are purposeful.Everything happens for a reason, so there is no such thing as failure. Mary-Kate OlsenPeople like to say "everything happens for a reason." If you repeat that in your head long enough that starts to sound like "anything can happen with a razor." Laura KightlingerI believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how we learn. Drew Barrymore
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ex vivo
Means "out of the living," that what takes place outside the organism
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fade out
decrease gradually
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fade out
A type of transition used in movies usually at the end of a scene, in which the transition fades to black from the cut.
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fall by the wayside
To fail to be completed, particularly for lack of interest; to be left out.
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fall out
To come out of something by falling.
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falling out
A disagreement; a major difference of opinion.
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far out
New, radical and extreme.
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farm out
To subcontract some task to another; to outsource.
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feed out of
To feed from.
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figure out
To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
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film out
To transfer images or animation from videotape or digital files to a traditional celluloid film print.
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find out
To discover, as by asking or exploring.
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find out
learn
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fink out
To avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner.
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fish out
To deplete the supply of fish in a given body of water.
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fit out
To provide a thing, a group, a person or oneself with requisites; to kit out.
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flat out
At top speed.
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