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"By no means," replied the Fox; "pray do not molest them." "How is this?' said the Hedgehog; "do you not want to be rid of them?' "No," returned the Fox, "for these flies which you see are full of blood, and sting me but little, and if you rid me of these which are already satiated, others more hungry will come in their place, and will drink up all the blood I have left."
I would urge them more myself, but that I am impatient to be rid of him, as Mainwaring comes within half an hour.
WELL, I have never been more glad to be rid of something since I ditched an ex in the late eighties.
It's time for gay men to be rid of a drastic misconception about their sex lives, a misconception they've inherited from straight people eager to apply gender stereotypes to sex between two males.
And that's an evil thing he did, and to be rid of that evil would be no bad thing.
She agreed there were times when she "wanted to be rid of him."
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- To be on one's back
- To be on short commons
- To be on speaking terms
- To be on the anvil
- To be on the carpet
- To be on the defensive
- To be on the fence
- To be on the mending hand
- To be on the move
- To be on the qui vive
- To be on the rack
- To be on the stretch
- To be on the tenters
- To be on the watch
- To be one flesh
- To be one's own man
- To be one's own master
- To be one's own mistress
- To be out at the heels
- To be out of her reckoning
- To be out of one's head
- To be pleased in
- To be pleased to do a thing
- to be precise
- To be reported
- To be rid of
- To be seized of
- To be shot of
- to be sure
- To be sweet on
- To be taken aback
- To be taken in the manner
- To be tied to a wife's apron strings
- To be turned of
- To be under a cloud
- To be under hatches
- To be under the mahogany
- To be under way
- To be up in
- To be up to
- To be upon one's good behavior
- To be upon the bones of
- To be upsides with
- To be well off
- To be with child
- To be without rebuke
- To be wrapped up in
- To bear a hand
- To bear a loss
- To bear against
- To bear away
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- to be put under a spell
- to be put under spells
- to be put up for auction
- to be quick on one's feet
- to be quick on your feet
- to be quiet as a snowflake
- To Be Quite Frank
- To Be Quite Freaking Honest
- To Be Quite Honest
- to be rare as a four leaf clover
- to be rare as a four-leaf clover
- To Be Read
- to be ready to pop
- to be ready-to-pop
- to be really fed up with
- to be really fed up with someone
- to be reckoned with
- To Be Recommended
- To Be Recorded
- To Be Released
- To Be Renamed
- To be reported
- To be reported
- To Be Rescheduled
- To Be Rescinded
- To Be Rescinded Date
- To Be Resolved
- To Be Returned
- To Be Reviewed
- To Be Revised
- To be rid of
- to be rid of someone
- to be rid of something
- to be right on heels
- to be right on one's heels
- to be right on one's tail
- to be right on somebody's heels
- to be right on somebody's tail
- to be right on someone's heels
- to be right on someone's tail
- to be right on tail
- to be right up one's alley
- to be ripped off
- to be roaring drunk
- to be rooted to some place
- to be rooted to someplace
- to be rooted to something
- to be rooted to the area
- to be rooted to the city
- to be rooted to the country
- to be rooted to the floor
- to be rooted to the ground
- to be rooted to the spot
- to be roped into
- to be roped into doing something
- to be roped into it
- to be roped into something
- to be round the bend
- to be run out of town
- to be run out of town on a rail
- to be safe
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