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get a lifeUsed sarcastically to tell someone who keeps meddling in other people's business, or gossiping about others, to stop obsessing over other people's lives and to concentrate on themselves and do something useful.Rate it:

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get acrossTo make an idea evident; to successfully explain a thought or feeling; put over.Rate it:

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get by the ballsTo have complete control over someone, especially of a woman abusing a man's infatuation with her.Rate it:

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get it over withTo do or finish, especially said of something unpleasant.Rate it:

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get onTo become old.Rate it:

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get one over onAlternative form of put one overRate it:

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get one's claws intoHave a controlling influence over.Rate it:

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get one's knickers in a twistTo become overwrought or unnecessarily upset over a trivial matter.Rate it:

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get one's panties in a bunchTo become overwrought or unnecessarily upset over a trivial matter.Rate it:

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get oversurmountRate it:

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get overcross, surmountRate it:

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get overTo recover from something.Rate it:

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get overTo overcome something.Rate it:

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get overTo forget, and move on.Rate it:

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get over onTo take advantage of.Rate it:

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get over onTo have sex with.Rate it:

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get over withTo do something quickly and hastily; without procrastination, especially so as to have something unpleasant behind oneself.Rate it:

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get something over withTo do something quickly and hastily; without procrastination, especially so as to have something unpleasant behind oneself.Rate it:

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get the drop onTo point one's firearm at another person, thereby gaining dominance over a situation.Rate it:

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get the drop onTo obtain an advantage over another person, by acting before that person.Rate it:

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give awayTo relinquish control over.Rate it:

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give awayTo formally hand over a bride to the bridegroom; often by her father.Rate it:

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give it the old college tryAn American Expression'; Give It The Traditional College Student's Focused, Determined Attempt Toward Achieving The Goal!Rate it:

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give me liberty or give me deathA set-phrase indicating enormous displeasure at any over-authoritarian policy or law.Rate it:

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give overUsually as an imperative. To tell someone to stop molesting, fooling around, or saying silly things. Or sometimes to stop saying flattering things.Rate it:

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give overTo entrust something to another.Rate it:

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give overTo devote oneself to a particular activity.Rate it:

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give someone the old heave-hoAlternative form of give somebody the heave-ho.Rate it:

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give someone the old heave-hoAlternative form of give someone the heave-hoRate it:

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gladius cervicibus impendeta sword hangs over his neck.Rate it:

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glance overto quickly inspect something with the eyesRate it:

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glaze overSame as to gloss over something. When someone makes reference to something or alludes to it, but what was more important was hidden or was not expressly stated.Rate it:

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glaze overTo become unfocused, as if through boredom.Rate it:

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gloss overTo cover up a mistake or a crime; to hush up or whitewash.Rate it:

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gloss overTo treat something with less care than it deserves; to skimp.Rate it:

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go back to square onerevert to the beginning and start all over againRate it:

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go by the boardTo fall or to go overboard; to be cast over the side of a ship.Rate it:

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go overTo look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze.Rate it:

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go overTo create a response or impression.Rate it:

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Go Over Like a Lead BalloonTo let down and collapse badlyRate it:

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go over someone's headTo take up an issue with another person's boss or other superior rather than beginning or continuing to deal with the original person.Rate it:

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go over someone's headTo escape someone's comprehension.Rate it:

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Go Over With a Fine-Tooth CombTo examine something with great attention, to search something thoroughlyRate it:

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go viralSpread over the internetRate it:

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gold plateto incorporate costly or otherwise excessive features or refinements unnecessarily, to over engineerRate it:

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golden yearsOld age, especially the years after one has retired from employment.Rate it:

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good old boyA friendly, unambitious, relatively uneducated, sometimes racially biased white man who embodies the stereotype of the folksy culture of the rural southern USA.Rate it:

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good old boyA male friend or chum, especially a schoolmate; a man with an established network of friends who assist one another in social and business situations; a decent, dependable fellow.Rate it:

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good old daysA period of time in the distant past when things were better or fondly remembered.Rate it:

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grab by the lapelsTo exert control (over something)Rate it:

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