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Chickens Come Home to RoostCertain words or actions, which carry evil intentions, always haunt a person - who uses them or carries them outRate it:

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chickens come home to roostA person's past wrongdoings will always return to negatively affect them.Rate it:

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choke offTo get rid of, cause to come to an end.Rate it:

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Christmas tree billA bill consisting of many riders that attracts many, often unrelated, floor amendments, which may provide special benefits to various groups or interests.Rate it:

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circle gets the squareAn affirmative response; often used sarcastically.Rate it:

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close ranksto regroup forces, especially when this involves overlooking differences in order to face a challenge or adverse situation. Often implies making a show of unity, especially to the public.Rate it:

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cloud nineA state of happiness, elation or bliss; often used in the phrase on cloud nine.Rate it:

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come a cropperTo fall headlong from a horse.Rate it:

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come a cropperTo suffer some misfortune; to fail.Rate it:

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come a long wayTo make significant progress.Rate it:

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come aboutTo come to pass; to develop; to occur; to take place; to happen.Rate it:

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come aboutTo tack; to change tack; to maneuver the bow of a sailing vessel across the wind so that the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to position a boat with respect to the wind after tacking.Rate it:

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come abouthappenRate it:

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come acrossTo find, usually by accident.Rate it:

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come acrossTo give an appearance or impression; to project a certain image.Rate it:

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come afterTo pursue or follow; to pursue with hostile intent.Rate it:

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come afterTo follow or succeed; to be the successor of.Rate it:

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come againCould you repeat that? Repeat that please. a polite formula used when one has not heard or understood what has been saidRate it:

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Come AgainTo ask someone to repeat something, as words or tone delivered earlier were not clear enoughRate it:

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come againUsed as a polite farewell to a visitor, inviting a return visit.Rate it:

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come aloftTo mount sexually; also, to have an erection.Rate it:

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come alongTo accompany.Rate it:

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come alongTo progress; to make progress.Rate it:

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come along!Join me, move forward, let's stay together.Rate it:

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come and goTo repeatedly appear and disappear (said especially of a feeling or pain)Rate it:

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come and goTo alternately enter and exit into something (physically or figuratively)Rate it:

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come apartto break, separate.Rate it:

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come apartUsed other than as an idiom: see come, apart.Rate it:

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come apart at the seamsLose self-control or become extremely upset due to some news, person or an eventRate it:

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come aroundTo change one's mind, especially to begin to agree or appreciate what one was reluctant to accept at first.Rate it:

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come atTo enter into sexual relations with.Rate it:

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come atTo get to, especially with effort or difficulty.Rate it:

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come atTo attack, to harass.Rate it:

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come atUsed other than as an idiom: see come, at.Rate it:

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come atTo come to; to attend.Rate it:

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come atTo accept (a situation); to agree to do; to try. Rate it:

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come awayTo distance oneselfRate it:

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come awayTo leave a place or cease an activity in a particular mood or condition.Rate it:

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come awayto become separated from something away.Rate it:

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come backTo return to a place.Rate it:

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come beforeTo appear publicly in front of someone superior.Rate it:

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come beforeto be of greater importanceRate it:

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come beforeto be judged, decided or discussed by authority.Rate it:

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come beforeTo precede.Rate it:

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come betweenTo affect negatively or cause discord between and another person.Rate it:

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come byTo obtain; to get, now especially by chance or involuntarily.Rate it:

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come byTo come near to; to pass.Rate it:

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come cleanTo confess; admit.Rate it:

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come downTo descend.Rate it:

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come downTo recover from drug-induced euphoria.Rate it:

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