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give backTo contribute money, goods, or, especially, services for charitable purposes, as if in return for one's own success.Rate it:

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give backTo recede; to retreat.Rate it:

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give offTo emit; to produce and send forth.Rate it:

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give somebody the brush-offTo rebuff, snub or curtly reject someone.Rate it:

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give someone a pat on his backTo complimentRate it:

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give someone the brush-offTo rebuff, snub or curtly reject someone.Rate it:

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Give Someone the Shirt off Your BackTo have a big heart, to give generouslyRate it:

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glance awayTo look at something else briefly, then look back again.Rate it:

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glance offTo strike a surface and be deflectedRate it:

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gloves are offFrom the sport of boxing where competitors fistfight wearing padded gloves; removing the gloves during a fight could result in serious physical injuryRate it:

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gloves are offTo argue or compete without regard to one's actions or feelingsRate it:

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go backTo return to a place.Rate it:

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go back in timeTo talk about history or the past.Rate it:

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go back onTo be treacherous or faithless to; betray; as, to go back on friends.Rate it:

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go back onTo fail to keep; to renege on; as, to go back on one's promises.Rate it:

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go back to square onerevert to the beginning and start all over againRate it:

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go in offTo pot the cue ball accidentally after hitting the object ball.Rate it:

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go offTo explode metaphorically; to become very angry.Rate it:

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go offTo depart; to leave.Rate it:

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go offTo explode.Rate it:

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go offTo like less.Rate it:

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go offTo putrefy or become inedible.Rate it:

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go offTo begin clanging or making noise.Rate it:

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go off at scoreOf a horse, to break suddenly into a gallop; of a person, suddenly to say or do something impetuous.Rate it:

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go off half-cocked: To take a premature or ill-considered action.Rate it:

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go off half-cockedTo take a premature or ill-considered action.Rate it:

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go off on oneTo launch into an animated diatribe, or passionate description or explanation of something.Rate it:

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go off the boilTo lose interest; to pall.Rate it:

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go off the boilTo become of diminished intensity or urgency.Rate it:

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go off the boilTo become less successful.Rate it:

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go off the boilCease to boil when heat is no longer applied.Rate it:

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go off without a hitchWithout any problems; with perfect execution; very smoothly or effortlesslyRate it:

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go outTo be turned off or extinguished.Rate it:

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go the way of the dinosaursTo go extinct or become obsolete; to fall out of common use or practice; to go off the firsthand market; to become a thing of the past.Rate it:

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go the whole hogTo do something as entirely or completely as possible; to reserve or hold back nothing.Rate it:

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goodgesser, not a bad gesser.Someone says not bad pretty close, I come back with not a bad gesser or pretty good gessser.Rate it:

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goof offTo dawdle; to engage in idle activity or inactivity.Rate it:

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grab offTo hurriedly and forcibly take, appropriate or seize control of.Rate it:

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grandstand playA successful play or other manoeuvre during a sporting competition in which one or more players shows off unnecessarily in order to entertain or impress the spectators.Rate it:

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hack offTo annoyRate it:

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hack offTo remove by hacking; to cut offRate it:

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hackles risingAn emotional or mental reaction to an irritable situation or person which causes a physical response to ones patience and/or the hair on the back of the one's neck.Rate it:

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hand offTo pass or transfer something to someone.Rate it:

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hang a legHesitate; hang back.Rate it:

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hang an arseTo hang back, to be afraid to advance.Rate it:

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hang backTo wait; to falter; to avoid proceeding through reluctance.Rate it:

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hang fiveTo perform a longboard move where the surfer goes to the front of the board and rides from there, one foot on the nose and the five toes of that foot extended out over the front of the nose, the other foot placed further back.Rate it:

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hang upring offRate it:

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hark backOf hounds, to retrace a course in order to pick up a lost scent.Rate it:

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hark backTo return or revert, to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for.Rate it:

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