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keep your hands on the wheelA. Continue leading. B. Maintain focus with tenacity.Rate it:

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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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key intoTo grasp; to understand the overall concept of or be acutely aware of the underlying and essential meaning of something; to get it.Rate it:

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key offTo take as a controlling input datum.Rate it:

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

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kick ass and take namesTo beat someone in a competition, fight, or other situation.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 into touchTo evade an issue.Rate it:

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kick into touchTo kick a ball over the touchline in a game of rugby to avoid pressure from the opponent team in a difficult situationRate it:

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

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

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kick rocksGo do something unproductive, go bother someone else, leave me alone, go away; See idioms: ‘take a hike,’ ‘hit the road,’ ‘beat it’Rate it:

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kick upInto the air while running or walking or driving.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 one's heelsTo relax; to enjoy oneself; to do as one pleases.Rate it:

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kick up one's heelsTo dance.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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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 Goose that Lays the Golden EggsTo spoil something good with one’s absurd actions, intolerance and greedRate 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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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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kiss and make upTo settle one's differences and forgive.Rate it:

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kiss my assTo plant lips on one's buttocksRate it:

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kiss my gritsA nice way of saying "eff you." Its a spin on the phrase "kiss my a**", written into a TV show from the 80s called "Alice". The saying was usually preceded by the name "Mel" who was the owner of the diner where Flo, the waitress who made the saying famous, worked.Rate it:

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kiss of deathA kiss on the cheek that signifies the death of the receiver, as delivered by a mob boss or one with such influence.Rate it:

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kiss your money goodbyeThe giving, lending of one's funds to individuals or investing or buying-into an irresistible scheme, agenda, lottery program or unknown proposition.Rate it:

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kitchen table softwareEspecially in the early years of personal computers, a set of computer programs developed by an entrepreneurial advanced amateur or self-employed professional computer programmer in his or her own home; software developed by a small business using the services of such programmers.Rate it:

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knee highVery small; to the height of one's knees.Rate it:

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knee slapperA joke, especially one which strikes the listener or reader as particularly humorous.Rate it:

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knee-deep in the Big MuddyStuck in a predicament; mired in a difficult situation, especially one resulting from poor judgment or bad leadership.Rate it:

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knit one's browsTo scowl, indicating anger, worry, or puzzlement.Rate it:

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knit one's eyebrowsAlternative form of knit one's brows..Rate it:

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knock AnthonySaid of an in-kneed person, or one whose knees knock together; to cuff Jonas.Rate it:

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knock offAn imitation, especially one of poorer quality.Rate it:

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knock on woodTo take a customary action to ward off some misfortune that is believed to be attracted my a presumptuous statement.Rate it:

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knock one down with a featherAlternative form of knock one over with a feather.Rate it:

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knock one outTo masturbate.Rate it:

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knock one over with a featherUsed to express that one is greatly surprised.Rate it:

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knock oneself outTo go ahead; to do as one pleasesRate it:

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knock some sense intoto reprimand or reform someone vigorouslyRate it:

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knock some sense into his headDepression Expression: During the Depression, there was little empathy for the unemployed. Pundits identified the loafer, the hobo, the bum, the specified lazy-boy, the uninspired, those lacking ambition as needing a wakeup Call.Rate it:

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knocked into a cocked hatAn expression of such nature and composition so as to capture rapt attention, create an air of suspense, curiosity or mystery.Rate it:

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know like the back of one's handTo be intimately knowledgeable about something, especially a place.Rate it:

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know one's ass from a hole in the groundTo have an adequate level of knowledge or skill; to understand what one is doing or talking about.Rate it:

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know one's onionsTo be knowledgeable about, and competent at, a particular subject or task.Rate it:

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