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"Lay an egg" means for someone to embarrass or disappoint with their performance.
"Cream of the crop" is another creative way of saying you're best of the bunch.
It's yours to lose means you'll probably have it unless you do something really stupid.
To die hard is to die in the hard way, not ceasing to be easily.
Whenever people ask you to "think big", they mean for you to be ambitious.
Genesis means the beginning of the formation of an idea, project, phenomenon.
To kick sb. upstairs is to remove them from their current position as punishment.
Knockoff is a colloquialism for a counterfeit, a copy of the original product.
To move in quicksand is to move slowly if you can move at all.
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