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| To hold still: |
not to move. |
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| To break the news: |
to deliver new, usually upsetting, information. |
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| To be the matter: |
to be unsatisfactory, to be improper, to be wrong. In a question, this idiom is used with ‘what’ or ‘something’. I an answer, ‘something’ or ‘nothing’ is usually used. |
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| To bring up: |
to rear, to raise from childhood; to mention, to raise an issue, to introduce a topic. |
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| To get lost: |
to become lost; to go away in order not to bother. The second definition provides a very informal, even rude, meaning that should be used only with close friends. It is usually used in a joking manner. |
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| To hold up: |
to delay, to make late; to remain high in quality; to rob. |
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| To run away: |
to leave without permission, to escape. |
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| To rule out: |
to refuse to consider, to eliminate. |
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| By far: |
by a great margin, clearly. |
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| To see off: |
to say good-bye upon departure by train, airplane, bus, etc. (also: to send off). A noun or pronoun must divide the idiom. |
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| To see out: |
to accompany a person out of a house, building, etc. A noun or pronoun must again divide the idiom. |
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| No wonder: |
it’s no surprise that, not surprisingly. This idiom derives from reducing ‘it is no wonder that’. |
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