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To "bring home the bacon."
What is "to earn a paycheck"?
To "get someone's goat."
What is "to irritate or upset someone"
The word referring to a cultural icon to be praised and admired sounds almost exactly like this word, which means to stand still and remain motionless.
What is idle?
This word is the possessive form of the pronoun who.
What is whose?
The form of there/their/they're that belongs in the following sentence:
Where did they go before _____ exam?
What is their?
Someone who is "the cat's meow."
What is someone who is cool or trendy?
The tail wagging the dog.
What is "a situation in which a less important group appears to be in charge of a larger and more important organization"?
This word refers to the newest version of something written or otherwise produced and sounds almost exactly like the word meaning 'the act of adding one or more things'.
What is edition?
This word is used to describe there being 'not as many' of a thing that you can physically count.
What is fewer?
Precede means to come before, but this similar sounding word means to move forward.
What is proceed?
To have "bigger fish to fry."
What is "to have more important things to do"?
I'm not hanging noodles on your ears.
What is "I am telling the truth"?
This word means to receive or take as payment, but it sounds almost exactly like a word that means "with the exclusion of."
What is accept?
The word 'between' is used to describe relationships between this many things/people.
What is two?
Then shows that something is coming next or after whereas than is a conjunction used to do this.
What is compare?
To "Kick up your heels."
What is "to let loose and have a good time"?
You "can't stop being the owl."
What is "you can't stop flirting"?
This word as a noun means "a result" but as a verb, refers to the act of causing a change.
What is effect?
This word is used to describe there being 'not as many' of a thing that are either plural or uncountable.
What is less?
Weary means to be tired whereas this similar looking word means to be distrusting of.
What is wary?
I'll be there will bells on.
What is "to be excited to show up to an event you were invited to"?
When dogs were tied with sausages.
What is "it happened a long time ago"?
Affect as a noun refers to emotion or feeling whereas affect the verb expresses this.
What is 'to influence or change'?
Who is used as a subject pronoun where as this pronoun is used as an object pronoun.
What is whom?
To is a preposition used to show direction towards a point whereas too does this.
What is 'shows addition to or excess of'?