“[someone's]”

The following 412 entries include the term [someone's].

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spike someone's guns

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: to ruin an opponent's plans

stack the odds in someone's favor

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: to make it more likely for someone to win, succeed, etc.

stand at/by someone's side

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: to remain loyal to someone

stand in someone's way

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: to prevent someone from doing something

steal someone's thunder

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: to prevent someone from having success or getting attention, praise, etc., by doing or saying whatever that person was planning to do or say

step into (someone's) shoes

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: to take on a particular role or task that someone else has been doing

step on (someone's) toes

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: to do something that upsets or offends (someone)

stick in someone's mind/memory

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: to be remembered by someone

stretch someone's patience

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: to cause someone to lose patience

strike someone's fancy

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: to appeal to someone very much

suit someone's book

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: to be suitable or satisfactory to someone

take a load off someone's mind

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: to allow someone to stop worrying : to make someone feel relieved

take a load/weight off someone's mind

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: to make someone stop worrying about something

take/borrow a leaf out of someone's book

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: to do the same thing that someone did

take someone's breath away

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: to make someone feel surprised and excited

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