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Idioms and Phrases

In addition to the following idioms beginning with on someone's , also see under on one's .
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Example Sentences

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But if you get an illegal one, "it can be anything from 200 cigarettes in one vape. Obviously someone buying this to go on a night out or a kid might just be chuffing on it all day and you can imagine the drastic effect that'll have on someone's lungs."

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I’m trying to step on the gas, not on someone’s dog.

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That bill, which is one of the first standalone anti-trans bills that a chamber of Congress has been able to advance since 2023, also established a definition of sex based solely on someone's "reproductive biology and genetics at birth."

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People "draw conclusions about everything" based on someone's accent, "and they do it really fast," says Dr Mary Robinson, a research associate in language variation and change at Newcastle University.

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We decided to stay on the basis that it would at least be more interesting than drinking beers on someone’s sofa in front of the television.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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