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Expressions

* - To keep one's word ( to keep promise )

 * - To hold one's tongue ( to remain silent )

 * - To stand up to somebody ( to resist )

 * - To bear a grudge against somebody for something ( to not forgive somebody for something, to have grievance)

 * - To hold spellbound ( to keep somebody in suspense )

 * - To hold out ( to continue to survive, to fight against somebody )

 * -  To be on the right track ( to be on the good way )

 * - To play gooseberry ( to be the third person at a date )

 * - To hold the purse strings ( to be in charge of money)

 * - To keep tabs on ( to look after somebody)

 * - To be the apple of one's eyes ( to care for somebody )

 * - To be hanging by a thread ( to be precarious)

 * - To have a long run ( to put on a play a long time )

 * - To write nothing but fillers ( to pad with news in brief)

 * - To hold the floor (to monopolize the conversation )

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1. Will you be able to bore a grudgehas had a long runhas held the floorheld outhold your tongueholds the purse stringskeeping tabs onon the right trackplay gooseberryspellboundthe apple of her eyesto stand up to I don't know if I tell you a secret?

2. The speaker held the audience bore a grudgehas had a long runhas held the floorheld outhold your tongueholds the purse stringskeeping tabs onon the right trackplay gooseberryspellboundthe apple of her eyesto stand up to I don't know yesterday.

3. She bore a grudgehas had a long runhas held the floorheld outhold your tongueholds the purse stringskeeping tabs onon the right trackplay gooseberryspellboundthe apple of her eyesto stand up to I don't know since ten o'clock and we are no longer listening to her. It is so boring.

4. I won't bore a grudgehas had a long runhas held the floorheld outhold your tongueholds the purse stringskeeping tabs onon the right trackplay gooseberryspellboundthe apple of her eyesto stand up to I don't know when you have a date with your boyfriend !

5. These earrings belonged to my grandmother but she gave them to me because I am bore a grudgehas had a long runhas held the floorheld outhold your tongueholds the purse stringskeeping tabs onon the right trackplay gooseberryspellboundthe apple of her eyesto stand up to I don't know.

6. My wife bore a grudgehas had a long runhas held the floorheld outhold your tongueholds the purse stringskeeping tabs onon the right trackplay gooseberryspellboundthe apple of her eyesto stand up to I don't know at home and we don't spend much money.

7. He bore a grudgehas had a long runhas held the floorheld outhold your tongueholds the purse stringskeeping tabs onon the right trackplay gooseberryspellboundthe apple of her eyesto stand up to I don't know against Mary who didn't want to leave Paris.

8. Policemen are bore a grudgehas had a long runhas held the floorheld outhold your tongueholds the purse stringskeeping tabs onon the right trackplay gooseberryspellboundthe apple of her eyesto stand up to I don't know a man who is lurking in the park.

9. She 'll fight to the last for her ideas and she is ready bore a grudgehas had a long runhas held the floorheld outhold your tongueholds the purse stringskeeping tabs onon the right trackplay gooseberryspellboundthe apple of her eyesto stand up to I don't know her manager.

10. The inhabitants of La Rochelle bore a grudgehas had a long runhas held the floorheld outhold your tongueholds the purse stringskeeping tabs onon the right trackplay gooseberryspellboundthe apple of her eyesto stand up to I don't know for several months against the Royal Army of King Louis XIII.

11. She is bore a grudgehas had a long runhas held the floorheld outhold your tongueholds the purse stringskeeping tabs onon the right trackplay gooseberryspellboundthe apple of her eyesto stand up to I don't know ! She has been persuasive with her boss !

12. The film ' The Intouchables ' bore a grudgehas had a long runhas held the floorheld outhold your tongueholds the purse stringskeeping tabs onon the right trackplay gooseberryspellboundthe apple of her eyesto stand up to I don't know for one year. It 's a great success