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| To take on: |
to employ, to hire; to accept responsibility for, to undertake. |
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| To take down: |
to remove from an elevated place; to write what is said, to note. The first definition of this idiom has the opposite meaning of the second definition ‘to put up’ in Lesson 19. |
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| To fall through: |
to fail to materialize, not to succeed. This idiom is usually used with the noun ‘plan’ or ‘plans’ as the subject. |
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| To fall behind: |
to lag, to fail to keep up (also: to get behind). This idiom has the opposite meaning of the second definition of ‘to keep up’ in Lesson 25. |
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| To give in: |
to surrender, to stop resisting. |
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| To give off: |
to release, to produce. |
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| To give out: |
to distribute; to become exhausted or depleted (also: to run out). The first definition has the same meaning as the first definition of ‘to pass out’ in Lesson 19. |
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| To have it in for: |
to want revenge on, to feel hostile towards (also: to hold a grudge against). |
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| To have it out with: |
to quarrel with, to confront. |
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| To hold off: |
to delay, or to be delayed, in occuring. The idiom has the same meaning as ‘to put off’ in Lesson 5 when a noun or pronoun is used as an object. |
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| To hold out: |
to endure, to be sufficient; to survive by resisting; to persist in one’s efforts. The first definition for ‘to hold out’ has the opposite meaning of the second definition for ‘to give out’ (seventh idiom of this lesson). |
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