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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

to improve

to inheaven

to jab

to jeopardize

to jump at

to keel over

to keep a stiff upper lip

to keep company

to keep it up

to knock down

to knock round

to knock under

to knock up

to know b from a

to lam

to lather

to laze

to lazy

to legislate

to let on

to let out

to let slide

to let sliver

to light on

to line

to line bees

to loaf

to loan

to lobby

to locate

to logicize

to look blue at one

to lump

to lynch

to mahoganyize

to make a raise

to make fish

to make no bones of

to make oneself scarce

to make tracks

to marble

to mince

to mind

to missionate

to misstate

to mizzle

to mosey

to motion

to mouse

to move

to mull

to muzzle

to nail

to nip

to nominate

to nullify

to outstorm

to overhaul

to parmateer

to peak

to peke

to pettifog

to plank

to play possum

to play second fiddle

to poke fun

to pony up

to progress

to pull foot

to pull up stakes

to put on airs

to put out

to qualify

to rail it

to raise a bead

to raise one's bristles

to rake and scrape

to re-charter

to re-insure

to re-investigate

to re-land

to re-loan

to re-open

to re-ship

to realize

to reckon

to retire

to retrospect

to ride

to rights

to roil

to room

to rope in

to row up

to row up salt river

to run one's face

to sag

to scrouge

to see home

to see how the cat jumps