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  • 41keep going — verb 1. continue uninterrupted The disease will run on unchecked The party kept going until 4 A.M. • Syn: ↑run on • Hypernyms: ↑continue, ↑go on, ↑proceed, ↑go along, ↑ …

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  • 42Keep Hope Alive — Infobox Single Name = Keep Hope Alive Artist = The Crystal Method from Album = Vegas Released = October 1, 1996 Format = CD single Recorded = 1996 Genre = Electronica Length = 38:00 Label = City of Angels Producer = Written by = Chart position =… …

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  • 43keep one on one's toes — verb To keep one attentive, active, busy or alert. Four year old twins will certainly keep you on your toes! …

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  • 44busy — adjective (busier, busiest) 1》 having a great deal to do.     ↘(of a place) full of activity or people. 2》 (of a person) presently occupied; engaged.     ↘chiefly N. Amer. (of a telephone line) engaged. 3》 excessively detailed or decorated. verb… …

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  • 45busy·work — /ˈbıziˌwɚk/ noun [noncount] US : work that is given to you only to keep you busy Students were given busywork for the last few minutes of class …

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  • 46busy — adj .1. occupied, engaged, employed, working, at work, on duty, at it; taken, in use, tied down or up; engrossed, absorbed, involved, intent, preoccupied, diverted; diligent, assiduous, industrious, laboring, toiling, grinding, drudging, slaving …

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  • 47How to keep an idiot busy for hours — is a joke which implicates the listener in circular reasoning or action in an attempt to find out how to keep an idiot busy for hours. The implication is that the listener is an idiot. The joke can take many forms, including questions with no… …

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  • 48Sunrunners of Goddess Keep — The Sunrunners of Goddess Keep are characters in Melanie Rawn s fantasy novels of the Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies. These Sunrunners have all been trained at Goddess Keep or have spent most of their lives at the Keep. Members of the… …

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  • 49a busy tone — ► (US also the busy tone, UK also an engaged tone) an electronic sound when you call a phone number that tells you the person you are calling is already using the phone for another call: »I ve tried calling her several times but I keep on getting …

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  • 50as busy as a bee — Meaning Origin Geoffrey Chaucer (1342 1400), Canterbury Tales. The Squyeres Tale Ey! Goddes mercy! sayd our Hoste tho, Now such a wyf I pray God keep me fro. Lo, suche sleightes and subtilitees In wommen be; for ay as busy as bees Be thay us… …

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