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fish or cut baitTo choose between taking action now, or forgoing the opportunity and putting that energy into another endeavor; to decide; do something constructive, but don't just do nothingRate it:

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fish outTo deplete the supply of fish in a given body of water.Rate it:

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fish out of waterA person in unfamiliar, and often uncomfortable, surroundings.Rate it:

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Fish Out of WaterTo feel uncomfortable and out of place while adjusting in a place or situationRate it:

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Fit as a FiddleBeing in good health and shapeRate it:

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fit intoTo be of the right size and shape to be placed in a location.Rate it:

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fit outTo provide a thing, a group, a person or oneself with requisites; to kit out.Rate it:

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fit the moldPossession of a variety of necessary and appropriate attributes and aptitudes can reveal an individual as fitting the mold for a specific difficult challenge.Rate it:

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fit upTo furnish with suitable things; to prepare; to fit out.Rate it:

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fits and startsActivity which is intermittent, variable in intensity, and prolonged by interruptions.Rate it:

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five by fiveI hear you loud and clearRate it:

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five will get you tenI strongly believe.Rate it:

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Fix Your WagonTo punish someone, to deal someone with annoyance and criticism causing his or her failureRate it:

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fizzle outTo lose excitement, to become less exciting.Rate it:

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flail aboutTo wave one's arms about violently, rather like a flail.Rate it:

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flake outTo fall asleep from exhaustion.Rate it:

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flake outTo flake or be flaky: to prove unreliable; to abandon or desert.Rate it:

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flame outburn up, fire up, flame up, flare upRate it:

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flame outOf processes and equipment involving combustion, to fail due to extinction of flame.Rate it:

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flame outTo fail, usually spectacularly.Rate it:

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flap one's gumsTo speak idly; to talk without effect.Rate it:

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flare upTo burst out suddenly, as in anger.Rate it:

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flat outCompletely out of something such as; energy, food or money. Basically to be out of any kind of product.Rate it:

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flat outAt top speed.Rate it:

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flat outBluntly, no holds barred.Rate it:

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flat-footedTo firmly hold and maintain a decision; to stand one's ground.Rate it:

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flatten outTo make flat.Rate it:

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flatten outTo become more even.Rate it:

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flavor explosionOne can experience a 'flavor explosion' upon imbibing a beverage you have hither-to not sampled. You anticipated myriad taste treats. Upon the first sip you wantonly begin your 'slake' in a cascade of foaming, bubbling, refreshing, exhilarating deluge of dashing delicacy, dancing from cheek to cheek, then explosively and divinely diving into the depths of your desert-dry throat channel!.Rate it:

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flea in one's earA stinging rebuke or rebuff.Rate it:

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flesh outTo complete; to create details from a basic outline, structure or skeleton.Rate it:

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fletum cohibere non posseto be hardly able to restrain one's tears.Rate it:

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flick offTo insult by showing them the back of one's fist with the middle finger extended.Rate it:

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flick offTo masturbate by flicking her clitoris with one's finger or fingers.Rate it:

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flick overTo change from one state to another by flicking.Rate it:

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flight of fancyAn idea, narrative, suggestion, etc. which is extremely imaginative and which appears to be entirely unrealistic, untrue, or impractical; thinking which is very speculative.Rate it:

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fling outTo become ugly and intractable; to utter sneers and insinuations.Rate it:

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flip one's lidTo be explosively angry.Rate it:

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flip one's wigTo be very angry.Rate it:

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flip one's wigTo act in an irrational manner or appear to be temporarily insane.Rate it:

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flip outTo become very angry or upset.Rate it:

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flip your lidTo verbally lash-out, explode, emotionally blow-up, lose control of one's self.Rate it:

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flip-outOne flips-out in becoming hysterical, extremely illogical, unreasonable, disoriented, discontented, or uncontrollable.Rate it:

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flipsideA necessary consequence or corollary of something; especially one seen as opposite, or as pro versus con.Rate it:

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float like a butterflyTo move effortlessly and in an agile fashion.Rate it:

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flog a dead horseTo attempt to get extra work out of a ship's crew during the dead horse period.Rate it:

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flog a dead horseTo attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more.Rate it:

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Flotsam and JetsamSet or assembly of worthless or unimportant things, hogwash or rubbishRate it:

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fluctibus iactaritossed hither and thither by the waves.Rate it:

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fluff outTo plump upRate it:

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