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My goodness!; Good lord!; Holy cow!

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brute; beast; monster; inhuman person; ungrateful person

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surely; clearly; without a doubt; in all probability; no matter how one slices it; no matter how one looks at it

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to talk back; to answer back; to retort; to say over; to repeat (what one has said)

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painstaking piece of work; work of great effort; tour de force; toil; labor; labour

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doing whatever one pleases

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one dimensional

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to be grounded on; to be based on; to be due to; to originate from

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fiction

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to be found

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if one is unlucky; if one is careless; if things don't go well

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to cite as an example; to refer to; to quote

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exhausted; tired; withered; worn out; boiling until shapeless or mushy; tediously

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in either case (used specifically in the instance of two possible outcomes or situations); either way; one way or another

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can never be able to

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to take over; to hand over

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our school; my school

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to boast of; to be proud of; to take pride in

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defeat; loss; failing to live up to (one's name, looks, etc.); discount; loss (on a sale)

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to side with (someone); to support (someone)

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yes; yea; aye; (arch.) to be so

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to trip someone up; to pull the carpet from under

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exposing fully; uncovering completely; being in full view; putting on display; not disguising

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shallow; superficial; thoughtless; short-sighted; foolish; silly

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to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant

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editing; compilation

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blasphemy; curse; profanity; sacrilege; desecration

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creative work (e.g. artistic, literary)

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(not) ever; (not) by any means; (not) in the least; (not) in any way; (not) at all

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off the mark; off base; misdirected; irrelevant

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obvious; clear; plain; evident; apparent; explicit

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to make a mistake (in); to commit an error (e.g. in calculation); to confuse; to mistake something for something else

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to start (something); to start up; to boot (a computer); to launch (a business)

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evidence; proof

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to step over; to step across; to stride over; to stretch over; to span; to bridge

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careful consideration; deliberation; thinking over carefully

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in high spirits

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to be blurred (due to motion; of a photo, video, etc.); to be shaken (of a camera); to waver (in one's beliefs, policy, etc.); to shift (position); to be slightly off

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subordinate person

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to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check

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meanwhile; in the meantime; by the same token; in contrast

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to go too far; to go past; to go to extremes; to overdo it

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doctors; teachers

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Parent-Teacher Association; PTA

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to make an enemy (of); to antagonize

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important matter; matter of great importance; serious affair; major incident; emergency

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to protect (someone); to look after (e.g. an injured leg); to defend; to cover for; to stand up for; to stick up for

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hereabouts; around here

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nose

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to smash; to break

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