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shifting the responsibility (for something) on to (someone); passing the buck

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development; evolution; expansion; spreading out; expansion (of an algebraic expression); development (of a three-dimensional shape); extraction (of compressed data)

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censure; denunciation; (verbal) attack; blaming

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to take refuge in; to succeed in running away

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to use tact; to exercise discretion; to be tactful; to be thoughtful; to have the sense (to do); to take a hint

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way of using (something); way to use; how to use; way of handling (employees, subordinates, etc.); way of treating; treatment

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fast-talking; rapid talking

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to act as an intermediary; to step in; to come between; to intervene; to interject

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to look (sound, behave) grown-up; to be adult-like; to mature

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to seclude oneself; to shut oneself away

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to cling to ... in tears; to beg ... in tears; to appeal; to throw oneself on someone's mercy

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to cause someone to worry

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to stay indoors; to be confined indoors

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to take out; to drag out

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point; dot; one point; one matter; one point (in a game, exam, etc.); one mark

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cooperation; collaboration; help; support

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stubbornness; obstinacy; disposition; nature; appetite; desire

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to rule; to govern; to reign over; to subdue; to suppress; to quell

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to shift one's attention to; to shift one's focus on

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to be given up; to be discontinued

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how; in what way; how about; questionable

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often; again and again; frequently; repeatedly

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to laugh scornfully

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benefactor; patron; person to whom one owes a great deal; person to whom one is (deeply) indebted

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lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend

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mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; banal

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smiling; beaming; radiant; bright; cheerful

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rough (touch, voice, etc.); coarse; gritty; rattling (of beans, beads, etc.)

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to yield oneself (to something); to devote oneself (to something); to surrender oneself (to something)

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uncontainable; irrepressible; uncontrollable

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request; appeal; claim; purchase

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perfidiousness; faithlessness; inconstancy; insincerity; falsehood

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to float; to save (on one's expenses); to scrimp; to half-rise, e.g. to one's feet

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to reschedule; to recompose; to recross (one's legs); to reset

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to become settled; to be fixed

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to be wounded; to get injured; to get hurt feelings; to get damaged; to get chipped

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to draw close to; to edge up to; to snuggle up to; to nestle close to; to cuddle with; to draw closer to

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to shift; to move; to slide; to move (an appointment, meeting, etc.); to bring forward; to put back

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place; point; part; counter for places, parts, passages, etc.

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(common) use (of a language, currency, etc.); current use; to be accepted (e.g. of a way of thinking); to work (of an excuse, trick, etc.); going in and out; entrance and exit

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troubled face; worried expression

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without; unacceptable; not alright; (arch.) nonexistent; (arch.) not being (there)

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ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound

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hardness

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(mammary) nipple; teat

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paper-thin (difference); razor-thin; very slight

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viscously; stickily

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to lick

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solid; robust; tight; taut; shrewd; calculating

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restricted; confined; unfree

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