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straight out of the chuteSomething done immediately, or "from the beginning". Taken from rodeo routine: the bucking bronco, or bull, or the calf for the calf-roping contest is kept in a narrow pen, a chute, until it is released and dashes out to its fate.Rate it:

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straight out the gateImmediately, right from the start. Right away.Rate it:

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straighten outTo make straight.Rate it:

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straighten outTo eliminate confusion from or concerning.Rate it:

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straighten outTo correct or rectify.Rate it:

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straighten outTo correct; to stop doing something wrong.Rate it:

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stress outTo become stressedRate it:

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stress outTo inflict stress on.Rate it:

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stretch outTo lie fully extended.Rate it:

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stretch outTo fully extend a part of the body.Rate it:

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strike outTo strongly criticize or make a verbal attack, particularly as a response to previous criticism or provocation.Rate it:

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strike outTo lash out; to strike or hit at someone or something, particularly something in arm's length of the striker and at or near the level of the striker's head.Rate it:

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strike outTo draw a line through some text such as a printed or written sentence, with the purpose of deleting that text from the rest of the document.Rate it:

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strike outto treat something as settledRate it:

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strike outOf a batter, to be retired after three strikes; of a pitcher, to cause this to happen to the batter.Rate it:

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strike outTo fail; to be refused a request or to have a proposal not be accepted, in particular a request for a date.Rate it:

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strike outTo begin to make one's way.Rate it:

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strike out into unknown territoryVenture forth into a new or unknown business, theme, vacation, personal relationship or program.Rate it:

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strip outTo remove.Rate it:

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stub outTo extinguish (a cigar, cigarette) by crushing the tip.Rate it:

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stub outTo eradicateRate it:

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style it outTo appear confident.Rate it:

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style it outTo pretend not to be embarrassed; to deny that an embarrassing thing ever happened.Rate it:

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sub outTo remove from something or to have one's place taken, especially in sports.Rate it:

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suck outUsed other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see suck,‎ out.Rate it:

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suck outTo win a hand, usually on a showdown, by hitting a card on the turn or river to make a better hand than one's opponent, even though one had a significantly inferior hand on the flop.Rate it:

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sue outTo petition for and take out, or to apply for and obtain.Rate it:

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sunder outTo remove a piece of something from the whole; separate out.Rate it:

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sunder outTo separate or set apart from others; split out; segregate.Rate it:

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sunder outTo break out; divide or scatter about.Rate it:

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sunder outTo apportion; allot; assign.Rate it:

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suss outTo manage to work out, to determine.Rate it:

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suss outTo come to understand.Rate it:

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swap outTo transfer into a swap file.Rate it:

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swap outTo exchange for.Rate it:

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swap outTo exchange for an unused equivalent.Rate it:

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swap spitto kiss, to make outRate it:

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swear outTo obtain by swearing to facts.Rate it:

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sweat it outBe patient whilst results develop closer to fruition.Rate it:

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sweat outTo sweat; to secrete sweat because of heat, nerves etc.Rate it:

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sweat outTo endure or go through.Rate it:

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sweep outto remove by sweeping or brushing.Rate it:

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sweep outto remove someone outside of a place (where they are not wanted)Rate it:

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tag upOf a baserunner, when a fly ball is hit, to put one's foot on the base one is currently at until the ball is caught. When the ball is caught, the baserunner may attempt to advance to the next base, at the risk of being tagged out.Rate it:

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take a page out of someone's playbookTo adopt an idea or practice of another personRate it:

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Take a PowderQuickly leaving a place or to sneak out from someoneRate it:

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

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take it out inTo accept as payment.Rate it:

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take it out onTo unleash one's anger on [a person or thing other than the one that caused it].Rate it:

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take offTo leave unexpectedly, blow the joint, leave in a huff, run out, evacuate, disband, abandon, rush away, fly the coop, jump the rails, jump the gun.Rate it:

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