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go out on a limbTo take a risk.Rate 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 southTo become unfavorable; to decrease; to take a turn for the worse.Rate it:

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go take a jump in the lake!a rude way of telling someone to go away and stop annoying you.Rate it:

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go the whole hogTo do something as entirely or completely as possible; to reserve or hold back nothing.Rate it:

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goodgesser, not a bad gesser.Someone says not bad pretty close, I come back with not a bad gesser or pretty good gessser.Rate it:

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goose upTo boost, to take steps to make something appear more attractive.Rate it:

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grab offTo hurriedly and forcibly take, appropriate or seize control of.Rate it:

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grace periodA length of time during which rules or penalties do not take effect or are withheld.Rate it:

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gradum facereto take a step.Rate it:

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grain of saltA bit of common sense and skepticism. Generally used in some form of to take with a grain of salt.Rate it:

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hackles risingAn emotional or mental reaction to an irritable situation or person which causes a physical response to ones patience and/or the hair on the back of the one's neck.Rate it:

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Handle With Kid GlovesTo carefully and tenderly take care ofRate it:

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handle your shitTo take care of one's necessary business, usually, but not necessarily, said by another person.Rate it:

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hang a legHesitate; hang back.Rate it:

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hang an arseTo hang back, to be afraid to advance.Rate it:

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hang backTo wait; to falter; to avoid proceeding through reluctance.Rate it:

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hang fiveTo perform a longboard move where the surfer goes to the front of the board and rides from there, one foot on the nose and the five toes of that foot extended out over the front of the nose, the other foot placed further back.Rate it:

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hang your hat on thatAssume or take credit for an idea, suggestion, phrase, development, creation, invention, proclamation, prediction, accomplishment, result, acceptance at large for your creation, art.performance et al:Rate it:

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Hanging by a ThreadTo remain in insecure and risky situation, to take help of a very small to secure youRate it:

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hark backTo return or revert, to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for.Rate it:

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hark backOf hounds, to retrace a course in order to pick up a lost scent.Rate it:

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harken backAlternative form of hearken backRate it:

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hasta luegogoodbye, see you later, bye, take careRate it:

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haul offTo draw back the arm in order to punch.Rate it:

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have a look-seeTake a look.Rate it:

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have a seatTo sit down; to take a seat.Rate it:

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have a seatA polite directive to sit down.Rate it:

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have a seatSee have; seat.Rate it:

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have an axe to grindTo have a dispute, resentment, or grudge, sometimes with a disposition to act on that resentment covertly; to have a bias; to take issue with something.Rate it:

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have eyes bigger than one's bellyTo take more food on one's plate than one can eat; to be greedyRate it:

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have eyes in the back of one's headTo be particularly, especially uncannily, observant; a perceived ability to see in all directions at once.Rate it:

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have one's back to the wallTo have no other options remaining.Rate it:

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have one's back upTo be angry or defensive.Rate it:

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have someone's backTo be prepared and willing to support or defend (someone).Rate it:

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have someone's backto always be ready to support, protect or help someoneRate it:

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head southAlternative form of go south; to decrease or become unfavorable; to take a turn for the worse.Rate it:

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head upTo lead or take the lead; to direct; to take charge.Rate it:

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hearken backTo go back to something as an origin or source.Rate it:

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hearken backTo turn back to an earlier topic or circumstance.Rate it:

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help oneselfTake freely.Rate it:

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here's your signA sarcastic remark and gesture that is said and done when someone says something stupid. This is said while holding the back of your right hand in a fist to your forehead with the index finger and thumb extended to form an "L" for "Loser." This is done and said to someone when they ask an obvious question and they should have known the answer; it points out to someone how dumb the question was that they just asked.Rate it:

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hereditatem adire, cernereto take possession of an inheritance.Rate it:

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his back is upHe is offended or angry; an expression or idea taken from a cat; that animal, when angry, always raising its back. An allusion also sometimes used to jeer a crooked man.Rate it:

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hit backTo retaliateRate it:

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hold backTo act with reserve; to contain one's full measure or power.Rate it:

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hold backTo delay, especially in school.Rate it:

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hold backTo contain; stop.Rate it:

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hold on to your seatPrepare for: something exciting or unexpected, e.g. a bumpy ride, a shocking revelation, “you may want to avert your eyes”Rate it:

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hold this lUsed to make fun of someone when they say/do something stupid; they take a "L" or a "Loss"Rate it:

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