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To approach someone in a very determined way.
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I could see the headmaster bearing down on me, and looked hopelessly round for a means of escape.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
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- be of two minds
- bet dollars to donuts
- cut of one's jib
- diamond in the rough
- easy as pie
- fly off the handle
- get the ball rolling
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- hammer home
- hard of hearing
- have a blast
- have a flat
- hot potato
- in the hot seat
- light up
- lion
- lip service
- long row to hoe
- middle ground
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- on the horn
- on top of the world
- one at a time
- one thousand
- own up
- pencil-neck
- piffy on a rock bun
- quarter past
- rain cheque
- round of applause
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