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To come near to; to pass.
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Your beau came by while you were shopping.
Submitted on August 28, 2012
More phrases:
- come out with
- cry out for
- go off
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- keel over
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- pick up
- pick up
- put on
- put up
- run down
- run into
- swear by
- take a crack at
- take back
- tell apart
- wail on
- walk into
- zero in on
- zoom down
- all that jazz
- at home
- be of two minds
- bear in mind
- brown thumb
- carry one's weight
- child's play
- dyed-in-the-wool
- elbow room
- get a jump on
- get off
- gold mine
- ground rules
- hack it
- have a heart
- have truck with
- hit a snag
- in evidence
- in line
- kick ass
- kick the bucket
- king
- lucky break
- lump in one's throat
- middle ground
- morning, noon and night
- no frills
- oh dark thirty
- old school
- on thin ice
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- roll out the red carpet
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