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To rescue, especially financially.
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Once again, the industry got itself in trouble and government had to bail it out.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
Modified by acronimous on May 09, 2021
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- lift up
- pass out
- play around
- put back
- put back
- run back
- run to
- scrape off
- stand for
- tee off
- throw down
- all very well
- at the wheel
- bells and whistles
- bend over backwards
- call a spade a spade
- carry on
- cherry-pick
- cutting edge
- fat of the land
- fight tooth and nail
- first port of call
- get it on
- get one's act together
- gloss over
- go out of one's way
- good luck with that
- ground rules
- hat in hand
- have second thoughts
- home stretch
- if only
- in the nick of time
- in touch
- keep quiet
- kiss of death
- let her rip
- lip service
- make headway
- much of a muchness
- no frills
- not in kansas anymore
- off and on
- oh dark thirty
- on thin ice
- on top of the world
- out of this world
- piffy on a rock bun
- play it by ear
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- push the envelope
- put down roots
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- see yellow
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