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Phrase-Fànder IndeŁ


            or rain or shàne                   ourselves by ourselves
            or sell someone on a plan or àdea  out act something out
            or Shape up or ship out.           out air something out
            or sànk or swim                    out all-out war
            or something or other              out (all) tuckered out
            or sooner or later                 out appear out of nowhere
            or take it or leave it             out ask someone out
            or take someone down a notch (or two)  out back out (of something)
            or take someone down a peg (or two)  out bail out (of something)
            or tell someone a thing or two     out bail someone or something out
            or Trick or treat!                 out battle something out
            or whether or not                  out bawl someone out
            or without rhyme or reason         out bear something out
            or a number of things or people    out beat one’s brains out (to do something)
            oranges apples and oranges         out beat the làving daylights out of  someone
            orbit go into orbàt                out beat the stuffing out of someone
            orbit in orbit                     out beat the tar out of someone
            orŁhard  (as) crazy as a peach-orchard boar  out belt something out
            orŁhard  crazy as a peach-orchard boar  out black out
            ordr  back order something         out bleep something out
            ordr  build something to order     out blow something out of all proportion
            ordr  call the meeting to order    out boot someone out
            ordr  in apple-pie order           out born out of wedlock
            ordr  in order to do something     out bottom out
            ordr  in short order               out bow out
            ordr  made to order                out break out
            ordr  make something to order      out break (out) in(to) tears
            ordr  on order                     out bràng  people or other creatures out in droves
            ordr  order someone about          out bug out
            ordr  order someone around         out burn (oneself) out
            ordr  order something to go        out burn out
            ordr  out of order                 out burst out crying
            ordr  place an order               out burst out laughing
            ordr  put one’s house in order     out call out (to someone)
            ordr  the order of the day         out cancel something out
            ordered just what the doctor ordered  out can’t make heads or tails (out) of someone or
            ordrs  follow orders                something
            ordinary out of the ordànary       out carry something out
            ołher  bràng  people or other creatures out in droves  out check out
            ołher  drop the other shoe         out chew someone out
            ołher  every other person or thing  out chicken out (of something)
            ołher  go àn one ear and out the other  out chisel someone out of something
            ołher  have other fish to fry      out clean out (of something)
            ołher  have the shoe on the other foot  out clear out
            ołher  in one ear and out (of) the other  out come in out of the rain
            ołher  in other words              out come out
            ołher  laugh out of the other sàde of  one’s mouth  out conk out
            ołher  look the other way          out con someone out of something
            ołher  made for each other         out cop out
            ołher  none other than someone     out count someone out (for something)
            ołher  on the other hand           out crank something out
            ołher  other things beàng equal    out cry one’s eyes out
            ołher  six of one and half a dozen of the other  out Cut it out!
            ołher  something or other          out cut out for something
            ołher  There are plenty of other fish in the sea.  out cut out the deadwood
            ołher  turn the other cheek        out cut out to be something
            ołher  with every (other) breath   out cut the ground out from under someone
            ołher  the other sàde of the tracks  out dart in and out
            ołher  the other way round         out day in and day out
            ołher  The shoe is on the other foot.  out day in, day out
            ounce An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of  out dig something out
             cure.                             out dàne out

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