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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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- back to square one
- be all ears
- bend over backwards
- black babies
- come hell or high water
- cut of one's jib
- deafening silence
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- early bath
- elbow room
- get by the balls
- get into trouble
- good luck with that
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- green light
- hard of hearing
- hit the spot
- if only
- in heaven's name
- in light of
- in one's cups
- in the hot seat
- in the nick of time
- let her rip
- light a fire under
- lion
- morning, noon and night
- muckety muck
- nervous as a cat
- no biggie
- no joy
- no slouch
- object lesson
- of late
- off and on
- on hold
- on its merits
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