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• Pass muster.
To be approved.
• Pick someone to pieces.
To criticize sharply.
• Paper over the cracks.
Put the cart before the horse. Doing things in a wrong manner
• Pull up the shocks.
Do things in the right manner and correctly.
• Parrot fashion.
If you learn something parrots fashion; you learn it word for word.
• Pay on the nail.
If you pay on the nail, you pay promptly in cash.
• Pen is mightier than the sword.
The idiom ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’ means that words and communication are more
powerful than wars and fighting.
• Pick someone’s brains.
If you pick someone’s brains, you ask them for advice, suggestion and information about something
they know about.
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