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501-600 Flashcards

1
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Dance attendance on someone

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Obey or serve someone attentively and eagerly

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Dance to someone’s tune

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Do what others want you to do

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Day and night

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Continuously

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Dead heat

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Close contest that ends in a tie

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5
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Dead in the water

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No chance of succeeding or making any progress

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Dead ringer

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An exact duplicate

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7
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Dead set against

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Disapproved

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8
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Deadlock

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A state in which progress is impossible

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9
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Deep pockets

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A lot of money

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10
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Desperate times call for desperate measures

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when faced with a difficult situation, you may need to take extreme actions that you would not normally consider

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11
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Die in a dog’s death

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A dishonorable or shameful death

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12
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Die hard

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Unwilling to change

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13
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Died in harness

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Died while working

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14
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Dig around

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Investigate

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15
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Dig up dirt on someone

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Discover damaging information about someone

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16
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Do a good turn

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To help someone

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17
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Do a roaring trade

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Highly successful

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18
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Do away with

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To abolish

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19
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Do or die

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To make a final effort

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20
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Dodge a bullet

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To narrowly avoid situation

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21
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Dog eat dog

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Ruthlessly competitive

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22
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Dog in a manner

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Selfish

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23
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Don’t judge a book by it’s cover

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We should not judge something primarily by it’s outward appearance

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24
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Done for

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Ruined

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25
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Donkey’s years

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A very long time

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26
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Don’t count your chickens before they hatch

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Don’t make plans based on events that have not yet happened

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27
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Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

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Don’t put all your resources in one place

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28
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Dot one’s i’s and cross one’s t’s

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Be detailed and exact
paying details to minute details of a task

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29
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Down and out

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Without money

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30
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Down in the dumps

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Sad and depressed

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31
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Down in the mouth

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To be depressed

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32
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Down the drain

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Wasted or lost

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33
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Down the tubes

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Failing completely

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34
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Down to earth

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Practical and direct

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35
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Draconian law

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Extremely severe law

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36
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Drag one’s feet

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Do something deliberately at a slow pace
(टाल मटोल करना)

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37
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Draw a blank

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To be unsuccessful

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38
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Draw a line

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To fix a limit

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39
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Draw first blood

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Be the first one to score or take advantage against an opponent

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40
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Dressed to kill

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Dressed to attract attraction

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41
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Dressing down

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Give a scolding

42
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Drew on his fancy

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Used his imagination

43
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Drive home

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To emphasize an important point

44
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Drive someone up the wall

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Make someone very irritated or angry

45
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Drop in

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Pay a casual visit

46
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Drop names

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Name famous people to impress others
(Hinting at high connections)

47
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Dropping like flies

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Collapsing in large numbers

48
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Dust and ashes

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Something that is very disappointing

49
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Eager beaver

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A keen and enthusiastic person

50
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Eagle eye

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An eye with sharp visual powers

51
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Ease somebody’s mind

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Alleviate someone’s anxiety
(मन को शांत करना)

52
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Easier said than done

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Be more easily talked about than put into practice

53
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Easy money

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Make money without much effort (maybe illegally)

54
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Eat anyone’s salt

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To be one’s guest

55
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Eats like a horse

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Eats a lot of food

56
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Egg on

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Encourage

57
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Elbow grease

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A lot of physical effort

58
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Elbow room

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To give enough space to move or work in

59
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Ended in a fiasco

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A complete failure

60
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Enough rope

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Enough freedom for action

61
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Evening of life

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Old age

62
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Every cloud has a silver lining

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Every unpleasant situation has a positive side

63
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Every dog has his day

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Everyone has good luck or success at a point of time in their lives

64
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Every inch a gentleman

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Complete gentleman

65
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Evil twin

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a person or thing that is a malicious or negative counterpart of another person or thing

66
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Excuse my French

A

apologising for using offensive language

67
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Explore all avenues

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Try out every possibility to get a result

68
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Eye wash

A

A deception
(धोखा)

69
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Face the music

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To bear the consequences

70
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Face to face

A

With another person in their presence

71
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Face up to

A

To accept a difficult situation

72
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Faint hearted

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Timid

73
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Fair weather friends

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Friends in good times

74
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Fair’s fair

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Just treatment

75
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Fall back on

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to use something, especially a form of financial support, when other things have failed

76
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Fall flat

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Unsuccessful

77
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Fall for

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Tu be tricked or fooled

78
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Fall foul of

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Quarreling with

79
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Fall into line

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Adhere to rules

80
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Fall short

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To not reach a particular level

81
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Falling head over heels

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Falling deeply in love with someone

82
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Fall out

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Stop being friendly after an argument

83
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Familiarity breeds contempt

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The better you know someone the less you like him

84
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Far cry from

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To be very different from others

85
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Feast one’s eyes on

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Gaze at something with pleasure

86
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Feather in one’s cap

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A new and additional distinction

87
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Feather one’s own nest

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To profit in a dishonest way

88
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Fed up

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Annoyed

89
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Feel blue

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Feeling sad/depressed

90
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Feel his pulse

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Find his views

91
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Feel the pinch

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Having financial problems all of a sudden

92
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Fell back

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Turned back

93
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Fell foul of

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Got in trouble with

94
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Fell through

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Failed

95
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Few and far between

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Not frequent/ rare seen

96
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Fifth wheel

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An un needed person

97
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Fight fire with fire

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To fight against an opponent by using the same methods or weapon that the opponent uses

98
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Fight shy of me

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Try to avoid something

99
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Fight your own battles

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To try to overcome challenges without help from anyone else

100
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Figure out

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Finally understood

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