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To exhaust a person or animal.
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Running errands all day really knocked him out.
Submitted on September 01, 2012
Modified by alison.hand on February 21, 2022
More phrases:
- make out
- mock up
- pile up
- prevail upon
- put in
- run about
- run through
- run to
- run up against
- stand up
- throw a fit
- throw out
- tie up
- arm to the teeth
- as all get-out
- as long as
- bear in mind
- bring owls to athens
- by hand
- by leaps and bounds
- common-or-garden
- cut and dried
- dead on
- early bath
- flea in one's ear
- flesh out
- for goodness' sake
- free-for-all
- from cover to cover
- get the ball rolling
- give it one's best shot
- give somebody what-for
- go red
- green light
- hat in hand
- have second thoughts
- heebie-jeebies
- in black and white
- in detail
- in the hot seat
- keep a lid on
- kindred soul
- move heaven and earth
- no frills
- no slouch
- oh dark thirty
- on board
- one of those days
- one thousand
- out of line
- out of the question
- piece of cake
- play one's cards right
- pretty pictures
- quake in one's boots
- red letter day
- right on
- rock bottom
- roll out the red carpet
- run hot and cold
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