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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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- pipe down
- play along
- put by
- read out
- run down
- run off with
- speak to
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- take upon
- turn against
- watch over
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- beat around the bush
- bend somebody's ear
- big cheese
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- easy does it
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- fight tooth and nail
- full speed ahead
- give a ring
- go blue
- good job
- hot potato
- in evidence
- in its infancy
- lip service
- make believe
- no frills
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