When something important, such as your reputation or money, rides on a particular person or thing, it will be won or achieved if that person or thing is successful:
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To ride on me
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To back onto it
If a building backs onto something, its back faces that thing:
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To tease it out
to try to get information or understand a meaning that is hidden or not clear:
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RE: To pop sth in it
Something that pops into your head/mind is an idea that you suddenly have:
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RE: To carry on sth
to behave in an uncontrolled, excited, or anxious (= worried and nervous) way:
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Lives off something
to use someone or something to provide the money or food that you need to live:
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Taken somebody in
to understand completely the meaning or importance of something:
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Tucked somebody in
to make someone comfortable in bed, especially a child, by arranging the covers around them:
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To bring down it
to cause someone to fall down by pushing or kicking the person when they are moving:
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To swing past something
to visit a place quickly, especially on your way to another place :
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Squeezing somebody in
to manage to do something or see someone in a short period of time or when you are very busy: