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To accumulate, to pile up.
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Every since the secretary left, the letters in my inbox have started to build up.
Submitted on March 06, 2011
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- take off
- take off
- around the clock
- at a stand
- babe in arms
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- call a spade a spade
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- dig deep
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- fight tooth and nail
- for the time being
- fresh start
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- gloss over
- grain of salt
- have a blast
- hem and haw
- hot potato
- in order
- middle ground
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- of late
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- out to lunch
- over and over
- pump iron
- rough around the edges
- sack out
- same old story
- seat-of-the-pants
- see yellow
- sell ice to eskimos
- sit tight
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