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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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- burn the midnight oil
- call it quits
- catch-as-catch-can
- chip off the old block
- company
- cut and dried
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- dyed-in-the-wool
- get it on
- gloss over
- grunt work
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- horse's ass
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- in touch
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- kiss of death
- let her rip
- make an honest woman
- middle ground
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- nail biter
- not in kansas anymore
- on hold
- on the pill
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- piece of cake
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