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soak the richGet money from the richRate it:

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some days you get the bear, other days the bear gets youOne cannot always overcome a powerful adversary.Rate it:

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spin one's wheelsTo make no progress despite making an effort; to get nowhere.Rate it:

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square offTo get ready for a fight.Rate it:

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square offTo get in the fighting position.Rate it:

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square upTo get ready for a fight.Rate it:

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square upTo get in the fighting position.Rate it:

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squeaky wheels get oiledAlternative form of squeaky wheel gets the grease.Rate it:

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stamp outTo get rid of, eradicate.Rate it:

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stand on one’s headTo try to impress someone by performing difficult feats or through hard workRate it:

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start a familyTo conceive one's first childRate it:

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stay wokeFirst used by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter in a 1938 interview afterword of his song Scottsboro Boys-named for nine Black teenagers and young men falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. Lead Belly knew the Scottsboro boys, and urged Black listeners and Black persons traveling through that area in Alabama to "Stay Woke" (be vigilant, cautious, and alert) in the spoken afterword to the song. Lead Belly's direct relative, Global Activist and Equality Advocate Greshun De Bouse began the #STAYWOKELEADBELLY movement to acknowledge the phrase's origin, and redefine its present-day meaning as a more generalized, all-inclusive phrase admonishing all to be cognizant of past, present, and future world occurrences.Rate it:

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steal a march onTo get ahead of someone or something by starting earlier.Rate it:

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step inTo get involved; to actRate it:

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step on it!A three word command to rush, move now, get with it quickly, respond immediately.Rate it:

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Stir up a Hornet's NestTo stimulate or stir people to get angry or annoyed, to cause a great problem, to invite dangerRate it:

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stop throwing shadesThis means to refrain from throwing sarcasm to a person either via SMS or in personal conversation. It calls to rather get direct to the point. It is like firing a bullet at point blank.Rate it:

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straighten up and fly rightTo get serious and stop acting absurd, to get focusedRate it:

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stretchTo get more use than expected from a limited resource.Rate it:

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stumpedCan't get wagon past a tree stumpRate it:

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suck it up, buttercupget over it; accept a difficult situation keep goingRate it:

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sweep the boardTo get enough votes in an election to gain all the seats.Rate it:

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Sweep You Off Your FeetTo leave a fine impression with your emotions and enthusiasm, to get overwhelmed by emotions and feelings of loveRate it:

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tâchez de faire quelques provisionsTry and collect some provisions.Rate it:

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take a chanceTo risk; to try something risky.Rate it:

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take a crack atTo attempt or try.Rate it:

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take a gambleTo risk; to try something risky.Rate it:

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take a run atTo attack or challenge or to try to attack or challenge.Rate it:

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take a shot in the darkTo try on something without having any knowledge about the subject.Rate it:

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take a spinTo go for a ride; especially, to try riding or driving something.Rate it:

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take a stab atTo attempt or try.Rate it:

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take for a spinTo test or try out something, especially an automobile.Rate it:

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take off!An order, a sharp command, a desultory admonition, Take Your Leave, now!, Get Lost!, Leave Town!Rate it:

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take the leadTo become the leader, to advance into first place.Rate it:

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take the pissAre you takin' the piss? You'll get yer 'ead bashed in.Rate it:

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take the plungeTo get engaged.Rate it:

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tee offTo hit the first shot of the hole.Rate it:

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telephone tagA situation in which a person unsuccessfully attempts to contact another person by telephone and leaves a message instead, and in which the second person then unsuccessfully attempts to return the initial call and leaves a message for the first person, and so on as if the two are playing a game of tag in which the most recent person to have been left with a message is now designated as "it" (i.e. as the player now obliged to chase the other and to attempt anew to make contact).Rate it:

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that and a dollar will get you a cup of coffeecomment used to imply that previously stated information, ability, or item, is of no value.Rate it:

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that and twenty-five cents will get you a cup of coffeeAlternative form of that and a dollar will get you a cup of coffeeRate it:

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the bears get rich, the bulls get rich & the hogs go broke!Don’t be a hog/greedyRate it:

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the dogs bark, but the caravan goes onLife goes on, even if some will try to stop or talk against progress.Rate it:

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the early bird gets the wormWhoever arrives first has the best chance of success; some opportunities are only available to the first competitors.Rate it:

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the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get(vulgar) The sexual satisfactions that one receives from a spouse or romantic partner are not sufficient to compensate for the significant periods of bad faith and unpleasant treatment which such relationships routinely involve.1971, Allen Churchill, The Literary Decade, ISBN 9780135375228:Years later she expressed her disillusionment with sex by saying, "The fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."1999, Ben Sonnenberg, Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy, ISBN 9781582430454, p. 93:Maitland got drunk at his parties and threw his arm around you and pulled you over to his wife and made you look down her dress, saying, "The trouble with marriage is that the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."2008, Joseph Heywood, Blue Wolf In Green Fire, ISBN 9781599213590, p. 63:"I can't believe a little pussy got me into dis mess." "Shit happens," Service said. "Sometimes the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."Rate it:

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the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you takeAlternative form of the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get.Rate it:

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the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to getAlternative form of the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get.Rate it:

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the girl said my condition is anatoriaWhen I leave my mother I get illRate it:

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the jetset wayThe JetSet Way is the only way. People who live this way are straight alpha/sigma males and have the ability at will to ethically attain any and every woman they shall desire, own any car they shall want, wear whatever brand clothes they want, get VIP access everywhere and will spend more time on planes traveling to foreign countries than they do at their home. The Jet Set Way was coined by JetSetFly (also known as Josh King Madrid) himself.Rate it:

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the one who always envies someone in society, will never live in gaietyThis idiom means that if a person spends time complaining, criticizing and whining about what everyone else does, owns, or how successful other people are about their financial situation, job career, or results they get, instead of focusing and trying their best to improve one's situation, the only consequence is that this behavior will keep them in the guts, that is, at a lower life level than the one they wish to be.Rate it:

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the rain in spain stays mainly in the plainEnglish people use this phrase to try to "correct" people's accents to speak what they like to call "proper" English by changing the way words in this sentence are pronounced.Rate it:

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