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To fiddle idly.
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These guys don't mess around! They finished the whole job in ten minutes.
Submitted on August 30, 2012
More phrases:
- mess up
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- chip off the old block
- dark horse
- do-or-die
- ears are burning
- get by the balls
- go blue
- hammer home
- have a cow
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- if only
- in black and white
- labor of love
- lump in one's throat
- make headway
- of late
- oh dark thirty
- on its merits
- on the spot
- one another
- out of house and home
- over one's head
- pardon my french
- point the finger at
- put one over
- rainy day
- raise the bar
- rock bottom
- rough around the edges
- rule of thumb
- seat-of-the-pants
- see someone through
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- shape up
- sign in
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- time after time
- toot one's own horn
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- water under the bridge
- what the devil
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