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To seal or block the entrance to a road, an area, or a building so that people cannot enter.
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The police closed off the street while they investigated the murder scene.
Submitted on April 11, 2012
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- cross someone's path
- curveball
- down the drain
- down to the wire
- easy as pie
- elbow room
- false step
- fat of the land
- fly off the handle
- for the hell of it
- get a handle on
- give in
- goose is cooked
- have second thoughts
- have truck with
- in black and white
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- keep an eye on
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- no biggie
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- out of order
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- over and over
- over one's head
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- play old harry
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