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    hold your horses

    The idiom is often used to tell someone to wait and think about something before taking action.

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      like a fish out of water

      If someone feels like a fish out of water, they are very uncomfortable in the situation they are in.

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        like a fish needs a bicycle

        If someone needs something like a Fish Needs a Bicycle, they don't need it at all.

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          brb

          BRB (Be Right Back) is one of the more polite online abbreviations; respectfully letting fellow chatters know that you'll be taking a brief vacation from your keyboard.

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            bbl

            be back later

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              afk

              afk means away from keyboard, a phrase that lets others know that you won't be at your computer for a while.

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                lol

                Lol is an acronym of laugh out loud.

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                  lulz

                  Alteration of lol. (Nonstandard spelling of the plural suffix -s.)

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                    rofl

                    ROFL is an internet accronmym for Rolling On Floor Laughing.

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                      Yah-boo

                      Used to express dislike or disrespect for someone, or to make fun of them

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                        stand on own two feet

                        To support oneself without help from other people

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                          saving face

                          To avoid having other people lose respect for oneself

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                            getting in the last word

                            If someone has the last word or the final word in a discussion, argument, or disagreement, they are the one who wins it or who makes the final decision

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                              shed light on

                              To reveal information or details about something; to clarify or help people understand something.

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                                people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

                                Used to say that people who have faults should not criticize other people for having the same faults.

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                                  better late than never

                                  It is better to do something after it was supposed to have been done than not to do it at all.

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                                    to drive me nuts

                                    To make someone go crazy

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                                      to catch someone out

                                      Means to cause them to make a mistake that reveals that they are lying about something, do not know something, or cannot do something.

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                                        small world

                                        Used to show surprise when one meets someone one knows at an unexpected place or finds out that one shares a friend, acquaintance, etc., with another person.

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                                          the blind leading the blind

                                          Used informally to describe a situation in which someone who is not sure about how to do something is helping another person who also is not sure about how to do.

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