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  • 101feel for someone — {v. phr.}, {informal} To be able to sympathize with someone s problems. * /I can really feel for you, John, for losing your job./ …

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  • 102feel for someone — {v. phr.}, {informal} To be able to sympathize with someone s problems. * /I can really feel for you, John, for losing your job./ …

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  • 103farm out to someone — farm out (someone) (to (someone)) to give someone to someone else who will take care of them. She farmed out her children to her brother for two weeks …

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  • 104farm out someone to — farm out (someone) (to (someone)) to give someone to someone else who will take care of them. She farmed out her children to her brother for two weeks …

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  • 105farm out (someone) — (to (someone)) to give someone to someone else who will take care of them. She farmed out her children to her brother for two weeks …

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  • 106go along with someone — go along (with (someone/something)) to accept something someone else wants. The agreement will make them the highest paid pilots in the industry, if union members go along. The president has announced a plan to cut taxes, and Congress is likely… …

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  • 107look right through someone — look right through (someone) to behave as if you do not see someone. He tried to engage the woman next to him in conversation, but she looked right through him. Usage notes: usually said of someone who is trying to ignore someone else …

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  • 108play ball with someone — play ball (with (someone)) to agree to do something the way someone else wants you to. Critics say the agency has been pressured to play ball with drug companies. Related vocabulary: play along with someone/something, go along with… …

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  • 109go over someone's head — To take a problem, complaint, etc directly to a person more senior than someone • • • Main Entry: ↑head * * * go over someone s head : to discuss something with a person who is higher in rank than someone else He went over his supervisor s head… …

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  • 110eat someone out of house and home — (informal) To live at the expense of another person so as to ruin him or her • • • Main Entry: ↑home * * * eat someone out of house and home humorous phrase to eat too much of someone’s food when you are a guest in their house Thesaurus: to eat a …

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