drag one's feet
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～ postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
feast one's eyes
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～ look at with great enjoyment; "She feasted her eyes on the Tuscan landscape"
feather one's nest
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～ enrich oneself by taking advantage of one's position; "The congressmen feathered his nest through his connection with big business"
flip one's lid
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～ get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic"
cool one's heels
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～ wait or pass the time aimlessly or futilely; be kept waiting; "She kicked her heels for hours at the gate of the Embassy"
cash in one's chips
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～ pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
catch one's breath
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～ take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
lend oneself
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～ be applicable to; as to an analysis; "This theory lends itself well to our new data"
kill oneself
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～ strain oneself more than is healthy
inconvenience oneself
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～ take the trouble to do something; concern oneself; "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"; "Don't bother, please"
lower oneself
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～ debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way; "I won't stoop to reading other people's mail"
help oneself
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～ abstain from doing; always used with a negative; "I can't help myself--I have to smoke"; "She could not help watching the sad spectacle"
find oneself
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～ accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
declare oneself
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～ ask (someone) to marry you; "he popped the question on Sunday night"; "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months"; "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman"
cross oneself
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～ make the sign of the cross; in the Catholic religion
extend oneself
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～ strain to the utmost
band oneself
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～ attach oneself to a group
assert oneself
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～ put oneself forward in an assertive and insistent manner
bestir oneself
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～ start to be active; "Get cracking, please!"
betake oneself
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～ displace oneself; go from one location to another