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To accumulate, to pile up.
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Every since the secretary left, the letters in my inbox have started to build up.
Submitted on March 06, 2011
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- take on
- take to
- taper off
- a great deal
- a notch above
- as well
- at the ready
- beauty sleep
- cake crumbs
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- deafening silence
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- have a look-see
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- out of order
- pay for it
- play one's cards right
- pull one's weight
- quarter past
- quick-and-dirty
- rough trot
- salad years
- shut down
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- spic and span
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