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To stay, linger or loiter.
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If you hang about after the show, you can meet the cast.
Submitted on September 02, 2012
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- put by
- put down
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- stretch out
- suck up
- swear off
- take off
- take over
- track down
- answer on a postcard
- back to square one
- bad joke
- beauty sleep
- by and large
- cat and mouse game
- company
- fair game
- flesh out
- flutter in the dovecote
- for the time being
- give birth
- give somebody pause
- go for it
- golden opportunity
- green light
- grunt work
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- have a look-see
- hold somebody's hand
- hot potato
- if only
- in evidence
- in one hell of a hurry
- in one's cups
- in the hot seat
- is the pope catholic
- lemon law
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