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• Kick up a row.
To start a fight, to create disturbance.
• Keep ones eye on the ball.
Be ready for something.
• Keep under one’s hat.
They tried to keep in under their hat but it soom became obvious that she is pregnant.
• Keep at bay.
He always tries to keep his troubles at bay when he is on holiday.
• Kangaroo court.
When people take the law into their own hands and form courts that are not legal, these are known
as kangaroo court.
• Keep body and soul together.
If you earn enough to cover your basic expenses, but nothing more than that, you
earn enough to keep body and soul together.
• Keep your eye on the ball.
If you keep your eye on the ball, you say alert and pay close attention to what is happening.
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