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As an allusion to the cooking technique of reducing liquids by heat, one boils down a problem, argument, etc. to its most central elements.
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So what this boils down to is that you still owe me that fifty bucks.
Submitted on September 26, 2012
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- all walks of life
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- bent on
- big cheese
- creature comfort
- cut of one's jib
- daily grind
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- drop a dime
- dry run
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- fall off a truck
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- good job
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- hammer home
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