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| To blow out: |
to explode, to go flat (for tires); to extinguish by blowing. |
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| To become of: |
to happen to (a missing object or person). This idiom is always used in a clause beginning with ‘what’. |
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| To shut up: |
to close for a period of time; to be quiet, to stop talking. The second definition of this idiom is impolite in formal situations. |
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| Have got: |
to have, to possess. |
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| Have got to: |
must (also: have to). |
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| To keep up with: |
to maintain the same speed or rate as. |
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| On the other hand: |
however, in contrast. |
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| To turn down: |
to reduce in brightness or volume; to reject, to refuse. |
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| Fifty-fifty: |
divided into two equal parts. |
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| To break in: |
gradually to prepare something for use that is new and stiff; to interrupt(for the second definition, also: to cut in); to enter illegally or by force. |
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| A lost cause: |
a hopeless case, a person or situation having no hope of positive change. |
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| Above all: |
mainly, especially. |
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