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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
More phrases:
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- keep down
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- sort out
- speak to
- stand back
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- strike up
- suck up
- take in
- touch down
- turn out
- wind down
- a different ballpark
- a notch above
- around the clock
- as if
- back to square one
- back-to-back
- brown thumb
- call it quits
- cat and mouse game
- fair game
- fall off a truck
- fat of the land
- front runner
- get it
- get off
- give birth
- give it one's best shot
- go red
- gray area
- half-baked
- have a heart
- hold your fire
- hustle and bustle
- in touch
- kiss of death
- make believe
- nervous as a cat
- no biggie
- not in kansas anymore
- nuts and bolts
- object lesson
- on thin ice
- out of line
- out of this world
- pass on
- pay for it
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- save face
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- see red
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