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To accumulate, to pile up.
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Every since the secretary left, the letters in my inbox have started to build up.
Submitted on March 06, 2011
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- answer on a postcard
- as if
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- gloss over
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- grunt work
- half-baked
- ham it up
- hat in hand
- have a word with
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