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Badly off ≠ well off (adj.) |
In an (un)fortunate (financial) situation. |
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Haggle (intr.) |
To argue for a better deal, especially a better price «I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.» |
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Booze up Booze artist |
- to drink past the point of drunkenness. |
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Brush off |
to blow off (both could be used other than as an idiom) |
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Budge (v.) (2) Budge over |
1. (amb.) To (cause to) move (slightly). «I tried to push the sofa, but it wouldn't budge.» «the cow didn't budge an inch.» «budge over, boys, make room for your uncle.» 2. (~) To yield in one's opinion or to cause them to do so. Examples on 3rd face |
«Once he's made up his mind, he never budges/you can never budge him.» «these people will never budge (from) their principles/demands» |
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Bulky |
Large in size or mass, sometimes in a way that makes it difficult to handle. |
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Cheapskate |
≠ spendthrift |
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Stingy |
Unwilling to spend, share or give; mean My mother is so stingy that she won't lend me money to buy a ticket |
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Chip away (amb.) |
To (make) reduce or weaken gradually Her comments were beginning to chip away at his self-confidence. |
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Clutch Clutch |
grasp or seize (something) tightly or eagerly Once they were in the water, she made at his body |
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Chit-chat |
Gossip |
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