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lose one's coolTo become upset or disconcerted; to lose one's temper.Rate it:

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lose one's head if it wasn't attachedprone to mislaying things.Rate it:

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lose outTo be at a disadvantage.Rate it:

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lose trackTo forget one's train of thought or temporarily misplace an item or its place in a sequence.Rate it:

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you snooze you loseIf you are not alert and attentive, you will not be successful.Rate it:

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grasp all, lose allone who wants everything, may lose it allRate it:

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Lose Your ShirtTo lose all one have, particularly moneyRate it:

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nothing to lose but their h'sDescriptive of people in England whose speech is proper or upper-class, but who are poor.Rate it:

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heads I win, tails you loseSaid to describe a conflict in which someone has a particular advantage from the start.Rate it:

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"life is a mathematical complex that you gain or lose with your actions."LifeRate it:

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if you snooze, you loseA figure of speech, relative to remaining alert in any agenda, active project, or important action.Rate it:

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lose consciousnesspass outRate it:

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lose faceTo lose the respect of others, to be humiliated or experience public disgrace.Rate it:

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lose groundto become closer to another traveling the same course.Rate it:

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lose itTo be explosively angry; to lose one's temper.Rate it:

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lose itTo lose control of a situation.Rate it:

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lose one's headTo go crazy.Rate it:

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lose one's marblesTo go crazy.Rate it:

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lose one's mindTo become mad, insane.Rate it:

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lose one's shirtTo lose all of one's money; to go broke; to undergo financial ruin or disaster.Rate it:

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lose one's shitTo lose one's temper.Rate it:

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lose one's temperTo be explosively angry. To get very cross.Rate it:

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lose one's touchTo lose one's special mastery of or knack for a particular skill or activity.Rate it:

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lose one's wayto get lost, to become lost.Rate it:

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lose oneself into be deeply occupied, focused or absorbed in someone or somethingRate it:

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lose sight ofTo fail to remember; to overlook or neglect.Rate it:

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lose sight ofTo be no longer able to see.Rate it:

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lose the number of one's messTo die, to perish.Rate it:

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lose the plotTo cease to be behaving in a predictable and/or rational manner.Rate it:

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lose the plotTo have one's results decline severely in quality or suddenly fall below an acceptable standard, especially when compared to past excellence.Rate it:

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lose touchTo cease to be familiar with someone or something or to cease to communicate or have contact.Rate it:

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lose your wayTo lose one’s direction in life.Rate it:

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no time to loseIt is important to do something immediatelyRate it:

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use it or lose itSkills or knowledge that are seldom applied are likely to be lost with time.Rate it:

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use it or lose itProperty and privileges will be lost if they are not utilized.Rate it:

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use it or lose itHuman abilities require repetitive usage or practice lest one become, rusty. out of tune, uncoordinated:Rate it:

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win some, lose someAlternative form of you win some, you lose someRate it:

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win the battle, but lose the warTo achieve a portion of a goal, but fail to achieve the entire goal.Rate it:

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don't be penny wise and pound foolishDon't be careful when it comes to spending small amounts of money, but careless when spending much larger amounts.Don't focus on minutiae and lose sight of the big picture; don't obsess over tiny inconsequential efficiencies while glaring inefficiencies are going on elsewhere.Rate it:

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get rid ofto dispose; to remove; to abolish; to loseRate it:

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come down to earthTo be brought back to reality; to lose one's dreams.Rate it:

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break evenTo neither gain nor lose money.Rate it:

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bring downTo make a legitimate rulership lose their position of power.Rate it:

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fizzle outTo lose excitement, to become less exciting.Rate it:

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space outTo stupefy, intoxicate, disorient, or lose attention or focus, especially by the use of drugs.Rate it:

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fall offA hip hop term; to completely lose the plot in terms of artistic direction.Rate it:

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drain the swamp when up to one's neck in alligators(idiomatic) When performing a long and complex task, and when you've gotten utterly immersed in secondary and tertiary unexpected tangential subtasks, it's easy to lose sight of the initial objective. This sort of distraction can be particularly problematic if the all-consuming subtask or sub-subtask is not, after all, particularly vital to the original, primary goal, but ends up sucking up time and resources (out of all proportion to its actual importance) only because it seems so urgent.Rate it:

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fall from graceTo fall from one's current social position to something lower, to lose one's prestige, status or power.Rate it:

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fall from graceTo lose God's favour through sins or wrongdoings.Rate it:

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switch offTo lose interest, and start thinking about something else.Rate it:

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