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hot under the collar |
angry |
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wrap (one's) head around |
To comprehend something that one considers challenging, confusing, or a foreign concept. |
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disillusionment |
a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be. |
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take stock |
To take stock (of something) is to thinkcarefully about a situation or event and forman opinion about it, so that you can decidewhat to do: |
After two years spent teaching overseas, she returnedhome for a month to take stock of her life. |
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the talk but does not walk the walk, |
mean that they do not act in a way that agrees with the things they say: When it comes to recycling he talks the talk but he doesn't walk the walk. |
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more often than not |
usually |
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on your toes |
Someone or something that keeps you onyour toes forces you to continue directing allyour attention and energy to what you are doing: |
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Strike a chord |
cause people to approve it or agree with it |
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lock horns |
engage in conflict."drug companies are locking horns in a legal battle over patents" |
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pitch in |
vigorously join in to help with a task or activity."we must all pitch in and do our part
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raise the notion of |
suggest the idea of |
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insurmountable insurmountable |
too great to be overcome."an insurmountable problem" |
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