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Keep Your Head above WaterTo have just enough to avoid any financial collapse, hardly keeping up with one’s responsibilityRate it:

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Keep Your Nose to the GrindstoneImpelled to keep one self-busy all the time, always working hardRate it:

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Keep Your Shirt OnTo remain patient and cool, not to get angry and enraged and to control one’s temperedRate it:

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kick against the pricksto struggle against one's fate. [from 14th c.]Rate it:

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kick in the teethA humiliating insult or instance of bad treatment, especially when one is expecting friendship or in need of support; a sudden and unexpected setback; a strong rebuff.Rate it:

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kick one's heelsTo wait; to wait impatiently or restlessly.Rate it:

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kick one's heelsUsed other than as an idiom: see kick, heels.Rate it:

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kick up one's heelsTo dance.Rate it:

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kick up one's heelsTo relax; to enjoy oneself; to do as one pleases.Rate it:

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kick up one's heelsUsed other than as an idiom: see kick, up, one's, heels.Rate it:

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kick up the arseA severe reprimand, especially one to motivate someone into doing something.Rate it:

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killTo disconnect (a user) forcibly from the network.Rate it:

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killTo use up or to waste.Rate it:

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killTo produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.Rate it:

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killTo amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.Rate it:

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killTo stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.Rate it:

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killTo render inoperative.Rate it:

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killTo invent a story that conveys the death of (a character).Rate it:

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killTo put to death; to extinguish the life of.Rate it:

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killcoolRate it:

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killNotRate it:

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killA kiln.Rate it:

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killA creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.Rate it:

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killThe grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.Rate it:

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killThe result of killing; that which has been killed.Rate it:

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killSpecifically, the death blow.Rate it:

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killThe act of killing.Rate it:

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killTo cause to assume the value zero.Rate it:

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killTo strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.Rate it:

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killTo punish severely.Rate it:

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killTo produce intense pain.Rate it:

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killTo force a company out of business.Rate it:

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killTo exert an overwhelming effect on.Rate it:

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killTo overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.Rate it:

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kill meAlternative form of shoot meRate it:

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kill offTo eliminate, or make extinct.Rate it:

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kill offTo represent or portray as being dead.Rate it:

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kill one's darlingsTo destroy, especially with conflicted motives, things or persons of which one is fond.Rate it:

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kill the fatted calfTo begin a festive celebration and rejoicing for someone's long-awaited return.Rate it:

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kill the goose that lays the golden eggsTo seek short term gain at the sacrifice of long term profit.Rate it:

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Kill the Goose that Lays the Golden EggsTo spoil something good with one’s absurd actions, intolerance and greedRate it:

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kill the kardashiansWhen Gary Holt (guitarist for Thrash metal band Exodus) found out that Kendall Jenner wore a Slayer Shirt but she didn't listen to the band. He made shirts that say "Kill The Kardashians".Rate it:

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kill the messengerTo blame a problem on whoever reported it; to hold somebody accountable a problem because he/she brought attention to it.Rate it:

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kill the rabbitTo get a positive test result from an old-fashioned pregnancy test.Rate it:

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Kill Two Birds with One StoneTo achieve or carry out two things with one effort, to do two things in one actionRate it:

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kill two birds with one stoneTo solve two problems at once.Rate it:

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kill with kindnessheaping generosity, compassion, or excessive favor on someone -usually in response to an insult- to bring them discomfort; to overwhelm with overindulgenceRate it:

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kin folkrelatives; people one is related to by blood or marriageRate it:

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king of the castleA children's game in which one player is located on something elevated and other players attempt to take his or her place.Rate it:

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king of the hillA child's game in which one player stands on top of a hill or other location atop an incline, and attempts to repel other players whose goal is to capture his position.Rate it:

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