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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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- cut up
- fall apart
- fire up
- hang about
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- pipe down
- put by
- run about
- stand back
- start up
- take back
- take off
- at a stand
- back to square one
- bang up job
- can of worms
- crown jewels
- cut it out
- dead
- eat one's words
- even money
- every man jack
- fall off a truck
- fat chance
- from time to time
- get into trouble
- give in
- gold mine
- grace period
- hammer home
- hang a ralph
- hang out one's shingle
- hit someone for six
- home stretch
- if needs be
- in detail
- in evidence
- in its infancy
- in the hot seat
- kick the bucket
- light a fire under
- lion
- middle ground
- no joy
- not in kansas anymore
- odds and ends
- off the mark
- on board
- one at a time
- own up
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