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To use something after a long time without it.
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I think it's time to dust off my old golf clubs, now that I'm retired.
Submitted on September 02, 2012
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- answer on a postcard
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- blaze a trail
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- call it quits
- check is in the mail
- cheek by jowl
- cherry-pick
- chip off the old block
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- dead as a doorknob
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- fight tooth and nail
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- from the word go
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- in the dark
- jolly someone along
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- one fell swoop
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