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To delay, especially in school.
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He's a year younger than his classmates because he was held back in second grade.
Submitted on January 10, 2012
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- bring owls to athens
- bury the hatchet
- cat and mouse game
- chow down
- cutting edge
- fair and square
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- get one's claws into
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- hang out one's shingle
- haul ass
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- in black and white
- in the works
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- no slouch
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