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To succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult.
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I don't know how, but he managed to bring off the Acme Foods deal.
Submitted on September 01, 2012
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- taper off
- turn back
- as long as
- call it quits
- cross someone's path
- fight tooth and nail
- flesh out
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- from a to z
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- give birth
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- hem and haw
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- in a nutshell
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- in touch
- jump at the chance
- keep a lid on
- labor of love
- lie through one's teeth
- lion
- no joy
- not half bad
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- old school
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