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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
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- pick up
- puff up
- puke up
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- run to
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- a drop in the bucket
- as all get-out
- at last
- beside oneself
- bite one's tongue
- cloud nine
- cut and dried
- deep water
- diamond in the rough
- early bath
- easy does it
- eat one's words
- every which way
- fat of the land
- fear
- fine line
- flutter in the dovecote
- go out of one's way
- go without saying
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- hat in hand
- have a blast
- have a heart
- have a look-see
- have a word with
- hem and haw
- in one's cups
- in the nick of time
- is the pope catholic
- magic bullet
- middle ground
- nail biter
- nine lives
- nuts and bolts
- odd and curious
- old stick
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- out to lunch
- over one's head
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