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To intensify one's efforts.
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It's 9:41, 58 degrees, and I'm flunking out. Time to bear down.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
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- break into
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- fire up
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- hammer out
- hold on
- knock over
- look forward to
- play around
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- quiet down
- take apart
- take to
- zip up
- above board
- at full tilt
- back to square one
- be all ears
- carry on
- cutting edge
- down the drain
- easy as pie
- fall off a truck
- fish or cut bait
- fly off the handle
- front runner
- full speed ahead
- gold mine
- have second thoughts
- in evidence
- in light of
- jolly someone along
- lie through one's teeth
- light a fire under
- lion
- look like
- lucky break
- magic bullet
- make a decision
- of late
- off the bat
- old stick
- on board
- on edge
- on the nose
- out of house and home
- out of house and home
- pardon my french
- pull one's head in
- put down roots
- quick-and-dirty
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