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To abandon or maroon.
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The mutineers cast away the ship's officers in the longboat.
Submitted on March 14, 2010
More phrases:
- conk out
- fall on
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- ring back
- rule out
- sort out
- squirrel away
- stand by
- take over
- touch down
- wade in
- as good as one's word
- brass ring
- bring owls to athens
- check is in the mail
- chow down
- come to terms
- eat one's words
- forty winks
- frog in one's throat
- get one's act together
- grunt work
- heebie-jeebies
- hem and haw
- horse's ass
- in the hot seat
- jump at the chance
- keep an eye peeled
- keep your hair on
- lie through one's teeth
- lion
- make headway
- mind one's own business
- nail biter
- no holds barred
- not be caught dead
- old school
- on the pill
- one at a time
- one-off
- out of line
- outside the box
- pass on
- piffy on a rock bun
- put down roots
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- red face test
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- rock the boat
- round of applause
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- see eye to eye
- smack of
- small fry
- stand one's ground
- sure of oneself
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