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To intensify one's efforts.
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It's 9:41, 58 degrees, and I'm flunking out. Time to bear down.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
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- crush out
- jump on
- lap up
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- ramp up
- run around with
- stand by
- take in
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- a drop in the bucket
- as all get-out
- assault and battery
- at a stand
- creature comfort
- down the drain
- drop a dime
- elbow room
- fat chance
- food chain
- give somebody pause
- go up in smoke
- good job
- goose is cooked
- haul his ashes
- honest-to-goodness
- in order
- kick ass
- muckety muck
- nervous as a cat
- no biggie
- no joy
- number one
- nuts and bolts
- on hold
- on the nose
- one at a time
- pardon my french
- party pooper
- pencil-neck
- piss up a rope
- play the race card
- ride roughshod over
- see red
- see someone through
- set one's cap at
- small fry
- spin one's wheels
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