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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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- double up
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- knock out
- rely on
- stay up
- suck up
- take down
- take upon
- tee off
- tuck in
- all of a sudden
- answer on a postcard
- at peace
- birds and bees
- blow off steam
- bury the hatchet
- by hand
- by heart
- call it quits
- dead as a doorknob
- dog and pony show
- fall off a truck
- feather in one's cap
- gold mine
- goose is cooked
- have second thoughts
- heebie-jeebies
- hit someone for six
- honest-to-goodness
- if needs be
- in order
- in the nick of time
- it takes two to tango
- jolly someone along
- keep a lid on
- kick the bucket
- long row to hoe
- middle of nowhere
- muckety muck
- no frills
- no slouch
- object lesson
- oh dark thirty
- on steroids
- out to lunch
- pound the pavement
- pretty pictures
- second banana
- seize the day
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- streak of good luck
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- test the waters
- there ya go
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