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To come to a higher position.
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I came up' the ladder carefully, holding the bucket in my right hand.
Submitted on August 28, 2012
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- jack up
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- throw out
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- back-to-back
- be all ears
- black babies
- born yesterday
- burst someone's bubble
- child's play
- common-or-garden
- cream of the crop
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- dead
- fair game
- family jewels
- fight tooth and nail
- get somebody's goat
- go blue
- good luck with that
- grain of salt
- gray area
- hammer home
- hand in hand
- have a cow
- have a word with
- hit the spot
- home stretch
- in line
- jump at the chance
- king
- labor of love
- light a fire under
- lion
- long row to hoe
- make believe
- make out like a bandit
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