Idioms

prevail upon (someone)
to ask or beg someone (for a favor)
I had to prevail upon my friend to lend me some money for my holiday.

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  • prey on/upon (someone)
  • prey on/upon (something)
  • prick up one's ears
  • pride and joy
  • pride oneself on/in (something)
  • prime mover
  • privy to something
  • promise (someone) the moon
  • prone to (something)
  • proof is in the pudding/proof of the pudding is in the eating
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  • quick and dirty
  • take to one's heels
  • stand up
  • look like death warmed over
  • behind in (something)
  • burn the midnight oil
  • whole ball of wax
  • not worth a hill of beans
  • commit (something) to memory
  • shipping and handling


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