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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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- burn up
- fall apart
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- mess around
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- run away
- stand by
- strike through
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- suck into
- walk into
- add fuel to the fire
- as well
- bend over backwards
- burn the midnight oil
- by hand
- call it a day
- come hell or high water
- come to terms
- cutting edge
- deliver the goods
- dry run
- easy does it
- fear
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- fresh start
- go bananas
- go on the rampage
- go red
- gold mine
- grain of salt
- green light
- ham it up
- hard of hearing
- home stretch
- honest-to-goodness
- how's tricks
- light a fire under
- lion
- long row to hoe
- make fun of
- morning, noon and night
- night owl
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- on edge
- on one's toes
- on the right track
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- over one's head
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