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Dog's Life	A be miserable and awful, to have harsh survival without much pleasure or prosperity	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
every man for himself!	Everyone has to fight for his or her own survival. This extraordinary admonition, generally applies during an extreme emergency, commercial or military wherein rescue assistance or other lifesaving help is unlikely.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
useless as tits on a bull	Totally without useful function	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
take a licking and keep on ticking	To be tough; to have endurance; to have the capacity to absorb stress or damage, but still be able to function.	Rate it: (4.00 / 3 votes)
break in	New function more naturally through use or wear.	Rate it: (3.67 / 3 votes)
bells and whistles	Extra features added for show rather than function; fancy additions or features.	Rate it: (3.33 / 3 votes)
rock up	To turn up to a place or function unexpectedly, or without notice or prior warning.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
life-or-death	Of critical importance to the survival of a living organism.	Rate it: (1.67 / 3 votes)
baptism by fire	A rite of passage through the survival or success of a crisis.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
brain-dead	Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bread and butter	That which is central or fundamental, as to one's business, survival, or income; a staple or cornerstone.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
break down	cease to function	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
ctn	The cotangent function.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
give 'em enough rope	Allow one to function unhindered, or without further overbearing oversight.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
give one enough rope	To allow one to function unhindered, or without further overbearing oversight.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
jump out	To exit a loop, function, etc. ending its execution before it has reached its terminating condition.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
kick up	To function improperly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
law of the jungle	The survival of the fittest, strongest or most cunning.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
matter of life and death	Something whose outcome could result in either someone's survival or their death	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
nose test	An inspection of the nasal passages or a trial of their function, as for breathing difficulties.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pickup	A word referring to the action of meeting and quickly associating with a strange female at a function, gathering, saloon, party or meeting.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
press into service	To make someone perform a task or duty, especially one they are not prepared or willing to do; to make something serve a function, especially one it was not designed or intended for.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
returns to scale	a function describing how returns scale when production increases in the long run	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
shell out	To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
short leash	Forcing one to function within a strict set of rules, or under great scrutiny or oversight.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
side effect	A change in state caused by a function call (typically "side-effect").	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tell against	To function as a liability (for someone); to put into a condition of disadvantage.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
work like a dream	To function very efficiently and effectively, with few or no problems.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
work together	To function together as parts of a larger process.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)