to hope that someone will provide something for you:

Posts made by Raeanne Dimick
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Shown someone over sth
to lead someone around a place that they are visiting in a formal or official way, while telling them about it:
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To blow sth out
If a flame blows out or you blow it out, it stops burning when a person or the wind blows on it:
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Descended on them
If a group of people descend on a place or person, they arrive, usually without warning or without being invited:
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Tided one over sth
to help someone to work or operate normally through a difficult period, usually by lending them money:
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To root her out
to search and find something or someone that is difficult to find:
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RE: To divest sb of something
to sell an asset, a business, etc. that belongs to you:
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Squeezing them from somebody
to persuade or force someone to give you money or information:
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Drawing on it
to use information or your knowledge of something to help you do something:
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To play upon sth
If you play on/upon someones feelings, you encourage and make unfair use of these feelings in order to give yourself an advantage:
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Cross you off something
to remove someone or something, such as a name, from a list by drawing a line through it:
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RE: To strike you off something
to remove a doctor, lawyer, etc. from an official list so that they are no longer allowed to work in that job, usually because they have done something dishonest or illegal:
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To free her from it
to help or make life better for someone by taking something unpleasant away from them:
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Frees you of it
to help or make life better for someone by taking something unpleasant away from them:
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To lay it off
to stop employing someone, usually because there is no work for them to do: