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To haul or bring out forcefully or as though with force.
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She dragged out her old Spanish textbooks in an attempt to prepare for her trip.
Submitted on May 18, 2010
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- a little bird told me
- at one's beck and call
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- bite one's tongue
- dead on
- do-or-die
- fear
- field day
- flutter in the dovecote
- fly off the handle
- gear up
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- give birth
- go up in smoke
- golden opportunity
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- have a look-see
- have second thoughts
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- no frills
- nuts and bolts
- of late
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- one of those days
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