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Idioms and Phrases

Arrange, bring about, as in We'll try to work it so that the board meets tomorrow . [ Colloquial ; late 1800s]
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An executive at a Los Angeles-based Halloween costume company, who requested anonymity due to ongoing negotiations with suppliers, said that when the initial 10% tariffs on Chinese imports were announced, he planned to work it out with overseas partners and absorb the costs.

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Martha described "getting home, eating, and working again. I wasn't the best mum that I could be. It was a bit of a blur after work. It was constant."

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And what work it has been, transforming PSG from a star-studded squad to a collective, cohesive and resilient unit.

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Reed, who grew up in Houston, uses colorful phrases and acknowledges the hard work it took to reach this point in his career.

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For any of this representative democracy stuff to work, it has to mean something when GOP politicians look up from nibbling on the scraps of the president's long-forgotten past grievances and say, "I smell a rat."

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