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To enforce laws or punish more vigilantly.
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Every year around the holidays, the police launch a campaign to crack down on drunk driving.
Submitted on August 28, 2012
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- take after
- take apart
- take back
- take back
- tie up
- zoom past
- all walks of life
- catch-as-catch-can
- curveball
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- down-to-earth
- eat one's hat
- follow through
- fresh legs
- ham it up
- hat in hand
- heebie-jeebies
- honest-to-goodness
- how's tricks
- it takes two to tango
- keep an eye peeled
- lemon law
- make fun of
- not half bad
- off the bat
- old stick
- out of gas
- out of the question
- pay for it
- put together
- quake in one's boots
- ride roughshod over
- roll out the red carpet
- rough around the edges
- rough trot
- run hot and cold
- run into the ground
- salad years
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