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choose upTo select, pick.Rate it:

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choose your battlesalternate form of pick your battlesRate it:

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your mission, should you choose to accept itYour mission or task; what you must do.Rate it:

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fail overTo automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component.Rate it:

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fail at lifeTo do something disappointing, especially to fail at something.Rate it:

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fail at lifeTo be or become trapped in poverty, or in a situation where someone is not doing anything productive with their lives; to become a loser.Rate it:

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feets don't fail me nowwhen you really need to get somewhere, you don't want your feet to fail and not get you thereRate it:

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without failCertainly; by all means; as a matter of importance.Rate it:

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words fail someoneOf a person: to be incapable of describing something with words, especially due to fear, shock, or surprise.Rate it:

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bring offTo succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult.Rate it:

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fish or cut baitTo choose between taking action now, or forgoing the opportunity and putting that energy into another endeavor; to decide.Rate it:

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go nowhere fastTo fail to make any progressRate it:

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nailed itTo succeed at something in a particularly impressive wayRate it:

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On the RopesOn the verge of collapse, helpless, state of near collapseRate it:

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opt outTo choose not to participate in something.Rate it:

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pussy outto fail to do something because of cowardiceRate it:

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quod ante pedes est or positum est, non videreto fail to see what lies before one.Rate it:

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Scrape the Bottle of the BarrelTo make use of something from leftover and off cuts. To be left to choose from scrap or residueRate it:

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square peg into a round holeThe phrase is typically said, "You cant fit a square peg into a round hole." Often it is shortened to simply "square peg, round hole." Something or someone that does not fit well or at all; something that will not succeed as attempted, except possibly with much force and effort, or alteration of either the peg or the hole or both beyond recognition.Rate it:

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WYCIWYGWhat you choose is what you get.Rate it:

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you've got to be in it to win itIn order to win, or succeed at something, one must first compete or try.Rate it:

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Keep Your Head above WaterTo have just enough to avoid any financial collapse, hardly keeping up with one’s responsibilityRate it:

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close in onTo enclose around; to tighten or shrink; to collapse.Rate it:

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knock upTo become exhausted or worn out; to fail of strength; to become wearied, as with labor; to give out.Rate it:

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a dumb priest never got a parish(Irish) Those who fail to speak up fail to get what they want.Rate it:

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blow upTo fail disastrously.Rate it:

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break downTo fail.Rate it:

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come shortFail to meet (expectations or standards)Rate it:

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fall inTo collapse inwards.Rate it:

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fall overOf an argument, to fail to be valid.Rate it:

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give inTo collapse or fall.Rate it:

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keel overTo collapse in a faint; to black out; to die.Rate it:

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odd one outA visual puzzle where the guesser has to choose which word/picture/symbol etc. does not fit with the others.Rate it:

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opt inTo choose to participate in something.Rate it:

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pull offTo achieve; to succeed at something difficult.Rate it:

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push one's luckTo take an excessive risk or to attempt some task unlikely to succeed, especially after having already been unexpectedly lucky.Rate it:

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set one's cap at. Or, more generally, to choose something as a goal.Rate it:

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shit yourself!Admonition; "Don't Shit Yourself' . . . 'Don't! . . . . kid/deceive/fail/fool/disappoint. . . . . YOURSELF!,Rate it:

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third time's a charmOne is sure to succeed at a task or event on the third try.Rate it:

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go down the toiletTo fail.Rate it:

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fire at willFire when ready. A command that allows troops to use weapons at their discretion and choose their own targets, allowing the individual soldier a greater freedom of timing the shot with target movement and similar.Rate it:

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six of one, half a dozen of the otherThe two alternatives are equivalent or indifferent; it doesn't matter which one we choose.Rate it:

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stave inTo stave from the outside, to crush inward, to cause to collapse inward.Rate it:

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blow one's chanceTo ruin, or fail to capitalise on an opportunity.Rate it:

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bottle outTo fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage.Rate it:

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drop the ballTo fail in one's responsibilities or duties, or to make a mistake, especially at a critical point or when the result is very negative.Rate it:

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fall by the waysideTo fail to be completed, particularly for lack of interest; to be left out.Rate it:

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go back onTo fail to keep; to renege on; as, to go back on one's promises.Rate it:

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kick inTo kick or strike so as to cause the object struck to collapse or fall inwards.Rate it:

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pay offyield good results; succeed.Rate it:

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