to examine something carefully in order to discover more information about someone or something:
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Delving into something
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Deferring to something
to allow someone or something to make decisions for you or tell you what to do because of your respect for them or because of their higher rank, authority, knowledge, etc.:
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RE: Answered for something
If you say that you can answer for someone or for a quality that they have, you mean that you know from experience that they can be trusted, or that they have that quality:
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Panders to someone
to do or provide exactly what a person or group wants, especially when it is not acceptable, reasonable, or approved of, usually in order to get some personal advantage:
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RE: Take something to task over sth
to criticize or speak angrily to someone for something that they have done wrong:
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To let one in on it
to tell someone about something that is secret, or to allow someone to become involved in something that only very few people are involved in:
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To hold out something
If a supply of something such as food or money holds out, there is enough of it to last for a particular period of time.
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To mistake her for sth
to confuse someone or something with a different person or thing:
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RE: Handed someone over
to give another person control of someone or something, or responsibility for dealing with him, her, or it:
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To copy somebody in
to send someone a copy of an email that you are sending to someone else:
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To cool someone down
to become less hot, or to make someone or something become less hot:
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RE: To stick somebody up
to steal from a place or person, using a gun as a threat: