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To intensify one's efforts.
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It's 9:41, 58 degrees, and I'm flunking out. Time to bear down.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
More phrases:
- come down
- conk out
- cut up
- finish off
- go off
- mike up
- play down
- run away with
- scarf down
- start up
- take a crack at
- tone down
- as good as one's word
- at will
- been there, done that
- bright line
- day in, day out
- dry run
- follow through
- get it
- get it on
- give in
- give somebody an earful
- hand in hand
- hard of hearing
- have truck with
- in black and white
- in order
- in the works
- lucky break
- middle of the road
- move heaven and earth
- nervous as a cat
- not half bad
- on top of the world
- out of house and home
- out of the blue
- pretty pictures
- pull one's head in
- put the clock back
- ride shotgun
- salad years
- seat-of-the-pants
- see red
- see the light
- sell ice to eskimos
- send up
- slip through the cracks
- smack of
- smart off
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- sure enough
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- the upper hand
- there ya go
- to the tune of
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