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To invent, create, or think of.
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Shelly stalled while she tried to come up with a good response.
Submitted on September 01, 2012
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- all very well
- at once
- at peace
- at the ready
- be all ears
- bite one's tongue
- born yesterday
- burn the midnight oil
- cross someone's path
- dark horse
- eat one's hat
- for the hell of it
- from the word go
- from time to time
- go for it
- go out on a limb
- have truck with
- heart to heart
- heebie-jeebies
- in evidence
- in its infancy
- keep an eye peeled
- kindred spirit
- lower the boom
- middle of nowhere
- mind one's own business
- not in kansas anymore
- off and on
- on steroids
- on the horn
- on the nose
- on top of the world
- out of the question
- pencil-neck
- play old harry
- price is right
- pull one's weight
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- set one's cap at
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- sure of oneself
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