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To rescue, especially financially.
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Once again, the industry got itself in trouble and government had to bail it out.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
Modified by acronimous on May 09, 2021
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- drag out
- go out
- pick up
- pull up
- put on
- read out
- run down
- strike through
- take off
- take over
- take upon
- turn against
- zero in on
- add fuel to the fire
- at will
- baggage
- bolt bucket
- brown thumb
- cake crumbs
- child's play
- fine line
- get it
- get somebody's goat
- give it one's best shot
- half-baked
- ham it up
- hand in hand
- hard of hearing
- horse's ass
- in black and white
- in heaven's name
- in order
- in the nick of time
- in touch
- king
- light up
- make headway
- nuts and bolts
- off-color
- on a full stomach
- on the pill
- out of gas
- out of order
- out of order
- over and over
- over one's head
- play old harry
- price is right
- pull one's head in
- push the envelope
- rainy day
- ride roughshod over
- scare the pants off of
- sell ice to eskimos
- shotgun
- shotgun approach
- shut down
- take a bullet
- be-all, end-all
- the whole nine yards
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