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To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for f** up.
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I'm not letting him use my computer again; he always jacks it up.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
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- nail down
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- stand by
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- take off
- take upon
- wail on
- add fuel to the fire
- all that jazz
- all walks of life
- apple of somebody's eye
- at all hours
- back-to-back
- bend the truth
- birds and bees
- chip off the old block
- cooking with gas
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- get one's claws into
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- haul his ashes
- in heaven's name
- jolly someone along
- jump at the chance
- keep an eye peeled
- low-hanging fruit
- lower the boom
- lump in one's throat
- make an honest woman
- move heaven and earth
- nervous as a cat
- no joy
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- on top of the world
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