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To experience; to suffer; to fall upon.
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With the rise of the Internet, some media fell on hard times.
Submitted on October 12, 2012
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- fit into
- hold back
- meet up
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- pick up
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- run away
- run over
- start over
- take in
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- a great deal
- above board
- been there, done that
- brush up
- dead
- dog and pony show
- feather in one's cap
- get one's claws into
- hammer home
- head-in-the-sand
- home stretch
- in one's cups
- kick the bucket
- low-hanging fruit
- make fun of
- not be caught dead
- nugget of truth
- object lesson
- old stick
- on hold
- on one's toes
- one of those days
- pachyderm
- point the finger at
- pretty pictures
- pull one's head in
- put down roots
- put together
- quick-and-dirty
- raise a stink
- ride roughshod over
- run hot and cold
- run out of steam
- seat-of-the-pants
- second banana
- see eye to eye
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