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To intensify one's efforts.
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It's 9:41, 58 degrees, and I'm flunking out. Time to bear down.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
More phrases:
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- crank out
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- run around after
- run off
- sod off
- stand by
- take to
- tee off
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- zoom down
- all of a sudden
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- been there, done that
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- daily grind
- diamond in the rough
- down to the wire
- easy does it
- fair game
- flower
- for the hell of it
- front runner
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- get the ball rolling
- give it one's best shot
- give somebody an earful
- give somebody pause
- goose is cooked
- grain of salt
- have second thoughts
- hold your fire
- home stretch
- in the hot seat
- in the nick of time
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- make an honest woman
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