worry something out

worry something out
discover or devise a solution by persistent thought.
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  • put something out of their misery — put (someone/something) out of (their/its) misery 1. to kill an animal or person because they are in extreme pain. The horse s leg was badly broken, and the kindest thing was to put it out of its misery. Badly wounded himself, he put a gun in his …   New idioms dictionary

  • put something out of its misery — put (someone/something) out of (their/its) misery 1. to kill an animal or person because they are in extreme pain. The horse s leg was badly broken, and the kindest thing was to put it out of its misery. Badly wounded himself, he put a gun in his …   New idioms dictionary

  • put something out of misery — put (someone/something) out of (their/its) misery 1. to kill an animal or person because they are in extreme pain. The horse s leg was badly broken, and the kindest thing was to put it out of its misery. Badly wounded himself, he put a gun in his …   New idioms dictionary

  • sweat something out — tv. to wait out something; to fret and worry until the end of something. □ You’ll just have to sweat it out. There’s no way to hurry it up. CD We’ l l sweat out the wait like everybody else …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • worry — verb (worries, worrying, worried) 1》 feel or cause to feel troubled over actual or potential difficulties.     ↘[as adjective worried] expressing anxiety. 2》 annoy or disturb. 3》 (of a dog or other carnivorous animal) tear at or pull about with… …   English new terms dictionary

  • worry — vb Worry, annoy, harass, harry, plague, pester, tease, tantalize can all mean to torment so as to destroy one s peace of mind or to disturb one acutely. Worry stresses incessant attacking or goading and an intention or sometimes an effect of… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • out of sight, out of mind — is used to suggest that someone will not think or worry about something if it isn t directly visible or available to them …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • out of sight, out of mind —    Out of sight, out of mind is used to suggest that someone will not think or worry about something if it isn t directly visible or available to them.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • Out of sight, out of mind —   Out of sight, out of mind is used to suggest that someone will not think or worry about something if it isn t directly visible or available to them …   Dictionary of English idioms

  • worry — wor|ry1 W2S1 [ˈwʌri US ˈwə:ri] v past tense and past participle worried present participle worrying third person singular worries ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(be anxious)¦ 2 don t worry 3¦(make somebody anxious)¦ 4 not to worry 5 nothing to worry about …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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