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‘G’

• Get on my last nerve.
If something is geting on your last nerve, you are completly fed up, ready to lose your temper.

(Southern USA).
• Give away the store.

If someone gives away the store, they say or do something that makes their position in negotiations,
debates, etc, much weaker.
• Go fly a kite.

This is used to tell someone to go away and leave you alone.
• Go fry an egg.

This is used to tell someone to go away and leave you alone.
• Go over like a lead balloon.
If something goes over like a lead balloon, it will not work well, or go over well.

• Go pound salt.
This means ‘Get lost or ‘Go away’ (‘Go pound sand’ is also used.)
• Go to the mat.

If people go to the mat, they continue to struggle or fight to the end, until they have either won or
have finally been defeated.

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