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• From cradle to grave.
During the whole span of your life.
• Face the music.
To accept punishment for something you have done.
• Feel the pinch.
To have problems with money.
• Fall on your own sword.
To be cheated by someone you trust.
• Feather in one’s cap.
Something that you achieve and proud of.
• Firing on all cylinders.
Work every possible way to succeed.
• French leave.
Absent without permission, to take French leave is to leave a gathering without saying goodbye or
without permission.
• Fall on our feet.
If you fall on you feet, you succed in doing something where there was a risk of failure.
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