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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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