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To accumulate, to pile up.
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Every since the secretary left, the letters in my inbox have started to build up.
Submitted on March 06, 2011
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- move out
- run around with
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- take off
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- be all ears
- be my guest
- bite one's tongue
- breath of fresh air
- by hook or by crook
- cake crumbs
- can of worms
- come to terms
- curveball
- dig deep
- down-to-earth
- flea in one's ear
- flutter in the dovecote
- get into trouble
- go bananas
- gold mine
- gold mine
- goose is cooked
- green light
- have a cow
- have a look-see
- head-in-the-sand
- in evidence
- in the dark
- keep an eye peeled
- keep somebody posted
- labor of love
- look like
- make out like a bandit
- mind one's own business
- nine lives
- not half bad
- nuts and bolts
- on board
- on the horn
- one another
- out of house and home
- out of order
- out of the question
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- point the finger at
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- so much as
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