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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
More phrases:
- come out
- jack in
- kick down
- kick off
- look up
- make out
- make up
- mess up
- mess with
- pick up
- run through
- scrounge up
- square up
- stick around
- take to
- air rage
- ass over teakettle
- at heart
- at last
- been to the rodeo
- bet dollars to donuts
- blow off steam
- creature comfort
- dark horse
- deafening silence
- diamond in the rough
- eat one's words
- eye candy
- fat chance
- fear
- fine line
- get a jump on
- give in
- go red
- gray area
- honest-to-goodness
- if needs be
- in a nutshell
- in layman's terms
- kick ass
- make believe
- not be caught dead
- out to lunch
- pardon my french
- piss up a rope
- play old harry
- pound sand
- pull one's weight
- push the envelope
- roll out the red carpet
- run out of steam
- sack out
- second banana
- sit tight
- sob story
- stem the tide
- sure of oneself
- take a gander
- take its toll
- talk a blue streak
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