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To like; approve of, accept, or tolerate.
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He tried sneaking it past them, but they didn't cotton to his attempts.
Submitted on July 03, 2012
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- baggage
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- call it quits
- common-or-garden
- cut it out
- do-or-die
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- oh dark thirty
- on steroids
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- pull one's head in
- put one over
- quick-and-dirty
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