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To come towards, to approach.
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I was standing on the corner when Nick came up and asked for a cigarette.
Submitted on September 01, 2012
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- after the fact
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- bring owls to athens
- burn the midnight oil
- burst someone's bubble
- call it quits
- chow down
- dry run
- ears are burning
- fear
- full speed ahead
- give somebody an earful
- hit the spot
- if only
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- kick the bucket
- lemon law
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- long row to hoe
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- no slouch
- off and on
- on its merits
- one at a time
- one thousand
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- out of this world
- pump iron
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- same old story
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