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To come towards, to approach.
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I was standing on the corner when Nick came up and asked for a cigarette.
Submitted on September 01, 2012
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- put up
- reckon without
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- start up
- stuff up
- wind down
- a drop in the bucket
- above board
- babe in arms
- blaze a trail
- burn the midnight oil
- cheek by jowl
- cut and dried
- cut it out
- dead as a doorknob
- fat of the land
- flesh out
- from the word go
- get into trouble
- go red
- ground rules
- home stretch
- honest-to-goodness
- in line
- jump the gun
- keep an eye peeled
- keep your hair on
- kiss of death
- low-hanging fruit
- make an honest woman
- move heaven and earth
- nervous as a cat
- on steroids
- one of those days
- penny pincher
- pretty pictures
- price is right
- pull one's weight
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- quake in one's boots
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- the upper hand
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