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To become less agitated.
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I'd love to go to Iraq, but I'll have to wait until the violence cools down.
Submitted on July 26, 2010
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- beat a dead horse
- carry one's weight
- cherry-pick
- cloud nine
- curveball
- cutting edge
- dark horse
- first port of call
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- flesh out
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- food chain
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- haul ass
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- how's tricks
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- keep quiet
- long row to hoe
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- morning, noon and night
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- no slouch
- nugget of truth
- odds and ends
- of late
- old stick
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- on thin ice
- one of those days
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