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1264 To be the plaything of fate:
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1270 To be the very picture of wickedness:
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1273 To be thorough musician:
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To be the last to come:
To be the loser of a battle:
To be the making of:
To be the pits:
To be the same flesh and blood:
To be the slave of (a slave to) a passion:
To be the staff of sb:
To be the stay of sb's old age:
To be the twelfth in one's class:
To be there in full strength:
To be thirsty for blood:
To be thoroughly mixed up:
To be thoroughly up in sth:
To be thrilled with joy:
To be thrown into transports of delight:
To be thrown out of the saddle:
To be thunderstruck:
To be tied (to be pinned) to
one's wife's apron-strings
To be tied to one's mother's apron-strings:
To be tied up with:
To be tin-hats:
To be tired of:
To be to blame:
To be transfixed with terror:
To be transported with joy:
To be transported with rage:
To be treated as a plaything:
To be treed:
To be tried by court-martial:

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1328 To be under sb's wardship:
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1339 To be unentitled to sth:
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1345 To be unneedful of sth:
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1347 To be unprovided against an attack:
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1354 To be up a tree:
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To be unequal to doing sth:
To be unfaithful to one's husband:
To be unhorsed:
To be uninformed on a subject:
To be uninterested in sth:
To be unpledged to any party:
To be unready to do sth:
To be unsatisfied about sth:
To be unsteady on one's legs:
To be unstruck by sth:
To be unsuspicious of sth:
To be up a gum-tree:
To be up against difficulties:
To be up against the law:
To be up all night:
To be up betimes:
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1366 To be up with new buoy-rope:
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To be up to anything:
To be up to date:
To be up to snuff:
To be up to sth:
To be up to the chin, chin-deep in water:
To be up to the elbow in work:
To be up to the eyes in:
To be up:
To be upon the die:
To be uppermost:
To be used for sth:
To be used to (doing) sth:
to be vastly amused:
to be vastly mistaken:
to be veiled in mystery:
To be very attentive to sb:
To be very dogmatic:
To be very exalted:
To be very hot:
To be very humble towards one's superiors:

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1413
1414
1415 To be with the colours:
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1422 To be worked by steam, by electricity:
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1425 To be worn out:
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TO DO
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To be within the competency of a court:
To be without friends:
To be wont to do sth:
To be worn out:
To be worn out:
To be worth (one's) while:
To be worth a mint of money:
To be worthy of death:
To be wrecked:
To do (say) the correct thing:
To do (sb's) job; to do the job for (sb):
To do (work) miracles:
To do a baby up again:
To do a course in manicure:
To do a dirty work for him:
To do a disappearing act:
To do a good deed every day:
To do a guy:
To do a meal:
To do a person an injustice:
To do a roaring trade:
To do a silly thing:
To do a strip:
To do again:
To do as one pleases:
To do by rule:
To do credit to sb:
To do duty for sb:
To do everything in, with, due measure:
To do everything that is humanly possible:

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60 To do sth by halves:
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68 To do sth in a loose manner:
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78 To do sth on one's own:
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81 To do sth on the level:
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To do sth for a lark:
To do sth for amusement:
To do sth for effect:
To do sth for lucre:
To do sth for the sake of sb, for sb's sake:
To do sth in a leisurely fashion:
To do sth in a private capacity:
To do sth in haste:
To do sth in sight of everybody:
To do sth in the army fashion:
To do sth in three hours:
To do sth of one's free will:
To do sth of one's own accord:
To do sth of one's own choice:
To do sth on one's own hook:
To do sth on principle:
To do sth on spec:
To do sth on the sly:
To do sth on the spot:
To do sth out of spite:
To do sth right away:
To do sth slap-dash, In a slap-dash manner:
To do sth through the instrumentality of sb:
To do sth to the best of one's ability:
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TO EAT
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3
4
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7
8 To eat off gold plate:
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10
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To do sth unasked:
To do sth under duress:
To do sth unhelped:
To do sth unmasked:
To do sth unprompted:
To do sth unresisted:
To do sth unsought:
To do sth with (all)expediton;
to use expedition in doing sth
To do sth with a good grace:
To do sth with a will:
To do sth with all speed, at speed:
To do sth with dispatch:
To do sth with grace:

To eat muck:
To eat one's heart out:
To eat one's words:
To eat quickly:
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15 To eat the bread of affliction:
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18 To eat to repletion:
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TO GO
1 To go aboard:
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9

To eat sb's toads:
To eat some fruit:
To eat the bread of idleness:
To eat the leek:
To eat to satiety:
To eat up one's food:
To eat with avidity:
To eat, drink, to excess:
To get sth to eat:
To have breakfast, to eat one's breakfast:
To have nothing to eat:
To tempt a child to eat:
To go about one's lawful occasion:
To go about one's usual work:
To go about to do sth:
To go across a bridge:
To go against the current:
To go against the tide:
To go all awry:
To go along at easy jog:
To go along dot-and-go-one:
To go among people:
To go and seek sb:
To go around the world:
To go ashore:
To go astray:
To go at a crawl:
To go at a furious pace:
To go at a good pace:
To go at a snail's pace:

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To go by:
To go chestnutting:
To go clear round the globe:
To go crazy:
To go cuckoo:
To go dead slow:
To go dead:
To go down (fall, drop) on one's knees:
To go down (from the university):
To go down before an opponent:
To go down in an exam:
To go down into the tomb:
To go down the hill:
To go down the river:
To go down to the country:
To go down to the South:
To go downhill:
To go down-stream:
To go downtown:
To go far afield, farther afield:
To go far:
To go fifty-fifty:
To go fishing at week ends:
To go fishing:
To go flop:
To go foodless:
To go for a (half-hour's) roam:
To go for a blow:
To go for a doctor:
To go for a drive:

115 To go home:
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To go in for sports:
To go in quest of sb:
To go in terror of sb:
To go in the direction of Sài Gòn:
To go indoors:
To go into a convent:
To go into a house:
To go into a huddle with sb:
To go into a question:
To go into business:
To go into consumption:
To go into details:
To go into ecstasies over sth:
To go into liquidation:
To go into mourning:
To go into rapture:
To go into retreat:
To go into reverse:
To go into rhapsodies over:
To go into the church:
To go into the dock:
To go into the first gear:
To go into the melting-pot:
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To go into the union house:
To go loose:
To go mad:
To go mushrooming:
To go must:
To go nesting:
To go north:
To go off at score:
To go off the boil:
To go off the hooks:
To go off with sth:
To go off, to be off:

To go out of one's mind:
To go out of one's way (to do sth):
To go out of the subject:
to go out of view:
To go out poaching on a farmer's land:
To go out to dinner:
To go out unobserved:
To go out with a gun:
To go out, walk out:
To go overboard:
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213 To go slow:
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To go part of the distance on foot:
To go past:
To go phut:
To go prawning:
To go quail-netting:
To go right on:
To go round the globe:
To go round with the hat;to make the hat go round; to pass
round the hat, to send round the hat:
To go sealing:
To go shares with sb in the expense of a taxi:
To go shooting:
To go shrimping:
To go skating before the thaw sets in:
To go slower:
To go smash:
To go snacks with sb in sth:
To go sour:
To go spare:
To go straight forward:
To go ta-tas:
To go the pace:
To go through a terrible ordeal:
To go through all the money:
To go through fire and water:
To go through one's facing:
To go through the roof:

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279 To go up in the air:
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To go to the hairdresser's for a perm:
To go to the kirk:
To go to the play:
To go to the poll:
To go to the races and have a flutter:
To go to the theatre:
To go to the tune of:
to go to the vote:
To go to the wall:
To go to town to do some shopping:
To go to wrack and ruin:
To go to, to mount, the scaffold:
To go together:
To go too far:
To go up (down) the stream:
To go up a form:
To go up in an aeroplane:
To go up the line:
To go up the stairs:
To go up to the university:
To go up:
To go upstairs:
To go uptown:
To go vacationing:
To go west:
To go with a girl:
To go with child:
To go with the stream:
To go with wind in one's face:
To go with young: