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To stay the same; to neither advance nor regress.
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It's a lot of work just to break even and keep the weeds down.
Submitted on August 30, 2012
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- at a loss for words
- bend somebody's ear
- chew the fat
- company
- field day
- first port of call
- for the hell of it
- get one's claws into
- give a ring
- hammer home
- hang a ralph
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- home stretch
- jump the gun
- lemon law
- long row to hoe
- lump in one's throat
- make believe
- much of a muchness
- on edge
- on top of the world
- out of one's depth
- out of this world
- party pooper
- pencil-neck
- play the race card
- pound the pavement
- put down roots
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- rough around the edges
- rush hour
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