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To rescue, especially financially.
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Once again, the industry got itself in trouble and government had to bail it out.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
Modified by acronimous on May 09, 2021
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- fall off
- gussie up
- pay for
- ramp up
- rely on
- run along
- run down
- sort out
- sound off
- stick up
- take on
- apple of somebody's eye
- at a stand
- bring owls to athens
- chain reaction
- cherry-pick
- common-or-garden
- curveball
- cut of one's jib
- deafening silence
- do-or-die
- even money
- first port of call
- flower
- full speed ahead
- get off
- give it one's best shot
- half-baked
- have a blast
- in its infancy
- in one hell of a hurry
- in the dark
- in touch
- it takes two to tango
- jump the gun
- light a fire under
- lower the boom
- lucky break
- middle of nowhere
- mind one's own business
- morning, noon and night
- nail biter
- nine lives
- oh dark thirty
- on edge
- out of character
- out of the blue
- outside the box
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- rough trot
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