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To become less agitated.
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I'd love to go to Iraq, but I'll have to wait until the violence cools down.
Submitted on July 26, 2010
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- look forward
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- run around with
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- apple of somebody's eye
- arm to the teeth
- at peace
- beauty sleep
- birds and bees
- burst someone's bubble
- by leaps and bounds
- cat and mouse game
- catch flies
- catch-as-catch-can
- day in, day out
- do-or-die
- down to the wire
- dyed-in-the-wool
- easy as pie
- fit as a fiddle
- frog in one's throat
- get it
- go without saying
- green light
- half-baked
- hammer home
- hat in hand
- have a cow
- in evidence
- in one hell of a hurry
- in one's cups
- keep one on one's toes
- keep somebody posted
- kick ass
- let her rip
- lower the boom
- nervous as a cat
- night owl
- not be caught dead
- odds and ends
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- one another
- out of character
- out of house and home
- out of order
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- seize the day
- shotgun approach
- smack of
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