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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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- track down
- turn out
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- at the wheel
- bend over backwards
- bet dollars to donuts
- brass ring
- call it quits
- center field
- chow down
- cut and dried
- down-to-earth
- fair and square
- for the time being
- give over
- go up in smoke
- go without saying
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- green light
- grunt work
- half-baked
- hammer home
- heebie-jeebies
- hustle and bustle
- if only
- in its infancy
- in line
- in the dark
- keep an eye out
- lip service
- lucky break
- mind one's own business
- night owl
- off the mark
- off-color
- oh dark thirty
- old stick
- one-off
- out of the blue
- over and over
- pay for it
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