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breathe down someone's neckTo follow someone too closely, making it uncomfortable for them.Rate it:

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brebis comptées le loup les mangeCounting one’s chickens will not keep the fox off; If you count your chickens, harm will happen to them.Rate it:

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breed in the boneTo establish or ingrain firmly within someone's nature.Rate it:

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bring backTo cause someone to remember something from the past.Rate it:

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bring downTo make a legitimate rulership lose their position of power.Rate it:

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bring downTo make someone feel bad emotionally.Rate it:

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bring it on around jimmya phrase off of an old show on TV maybe a country western show? about bringing the wagon aroundRate it:

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bring offTo succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult.Rate it:

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bring out in a rashto rile someone upRate it:

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bring to heelTo force someone to obey.Rate it:

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bring up againstTo cause someone to have to solve a problem or deal with an issue.Rate it:

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broaden someone's horizonsTo increase someone's interests, skills, or experiences beyond their current range.Rate it:

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broken recordSomeone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance.Rate it:

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browned offAnnoyed, upset, angry, bored, fed up, disgusted.Rate it:

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brownnoseTo flatter someone (especially a superior) in an obsequious manner, and to support their every opinionRate it:

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brush offAn abrupt rebuff or dismissal.Rate it:

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buck offTo cause to fall off.Rate it:

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budge upTo move or scoot over in order to make room for someone, especially when sitting.Rate it:

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bug in one's bonnetSomething that makes someone act crazy or excites them or is of particular interest or concern to them; something that bothers or irritates someone; a lesser known version of the expression “bee in one’s bonnet”Rate it:

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bug offUsed to tell somebody to leave them alone.Rate it:

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Bug OffTo avoid bothering someone, to leave someone alone, go awayRate it:

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bug outTo abandon someone without warning.Rate it:

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Bug SomeoneTo annoy someone, bothering, irritating a lotRate it:

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bugger offGo away.Rate it:

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bugger offAn expression of disagreement or disbelief.Rate it:

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Bull in a China ShopAn awkward person who actually does not care about the delicate situation, a rough person who comes near the brittle things, an insensitive person who makes people angry with his/her deeds and words to create disturbance in their work or plansRate it:

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bum's rushForcible ejection from an establishment, as of a bum (hobo); someone trying to get you to leave abruptly (quickly).Rate it:

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bump intoTo meet someone by chance.Rate it:

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bump offTo kill, especially to murder.Rate it:

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bundle of laughsSomething or someone very funny or fun.Rate it:

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bundle offTo go somewhere unceremoniouslyRate it:

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bundle offTo send someone away quickly and without fussingRate it:

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bunk offTo play truant.Rate it:

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bunk offWe all bunked off school yesterday to watch the football.Rate it:

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burn a hole in one's pocketTo cause someone to be tempted to spend money.Rate it:

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burn everything russian except the sources of their energy, coal, natural gas and oil.From an early form of boycott and civil resistance in Ireland with implied relevance in today's world.Rate it:

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burn offTo dissipate as the result of heat.Rate it:

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burn offTo cause to dissipate by applying heat.Rate it:

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burn offTo dispose of by burning it as it emerges from the well.Rate it:

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burn offTo fill with programming not suitable for its original purpose.Rate it:

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burned outIndividuals whom expend more energy and funds than they really possess can overdo, go bankrupt or savage their health status.Rate it:

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burst someone's bubbleTo disillusion; to disabuse someone of a false notion or rationalization that has grown comfortable.Rate it:

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Busman's HolidayTo spend free time in same task people do during their working timingsRate it:

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bust a cap in someone's assAlternative form of pop a cap in someone's ass.Rate it:

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bust the dustTo clean dust off something, such as with a vacuum cleaner.Rate it:

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busy beaverSomeone who is very busy or hard-working.Rate it:

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busy little beaverSomeone who has completed or accomplished many tasks or works.Rate it:

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but for the grace of GodWere it not for God's help, someone could have suffered that outcome.Rate it:

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but me no butsUsed to cut off objections or qualificationsRate it:

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butt headsTo argue uncompromisingly with someone.Rate it:

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