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To exhaust a person or animal.
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Running errands all day really knocked him out.
Submitted on September 01, 2012
Modified by alison.hand on February 21, 2022
More phrases:
- let up
- make up
- pull up
- read out
- split up
- stamp out
- suck into
- take in
- take off
- throw a fit
- throw out
- a cut above
- all things being equal
- apple of somebody's eye
- as far as one knows
- as long as
- at all hours
- at one's beck and call
- back-to-back
- bend somebody's ear
- breath of fresh air
- by hand
- cream of the crop
- cutting edge
- day in, day out
- deliver the goods
- elbow room
- family jewels
- fat of the land
- free-for-all
- from cover to cover
- full speed ahead
- get one's act together
- go red
- hang a ralph
- have a blast
- have a word with
- heart to heart
- honest-to-goodness
- in layman's terms
- jump at the chance
- keep an eye out
- keep somebody posted
- kick ass
- kick ass
- kick the bucket
- lemon law
- light up
- lower the boom
- make fun of
- middle of nowhere
- mind one's own business
- morning, noon and night
- much of a muchness
- not half bad
- object lesson
- odds and ends
- off the mark
- on a full stomach
- on top of the world
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