to increase the speed of the engine of a vehicle while the vehicle is not moving:

Posts made by Zipporah Schumaker
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RE: To rev up something
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Brushed someone off
to remove dust or dirt from someone or something by using your hands or a brush:
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RE: To reckon with something
to consider the effect something or someone will have:
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RE: To round it off
to complete an event or activity in a pleasant or satisfactory way:
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RE: To run them down
to hit and injure a person or animal with a vehicle, especially intentionally:
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Leveled it down
to become worse or less, or to make something worse or less, so that it is the same as something else:
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Hammers something out
to reach an agreement or solution after a lot of argument or discussion:
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To dumb something down
to make something simpler and easier for people to understand, especially in order to make it more popular:
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To cool her off
to become less hot, or to make someone or something become less hot:
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RE: To close something down
to end the operation of something, or (esp. a place of business) to stop operating:
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RE: To weigh something down
to make a person feel worried and unhappy because of problems, responsibilities, and duties:
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To cheer something up
If someone cheers up, or something cheers someone up, they start to feel happier:
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Be ranged against somebody
to be part of a group that opposes/supports a particular idea, plan, or group:
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Takes sth from somebody
If you take words, information, or ideas from another person or piece of work, you use or develop them in some way:
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Hammers it out
to reach an agreement or solution after a lot of argument or discussion:
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Take a page from them
to copy something that someone else does because it will bring you advantages: