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  • 131run scared — mainly American to be worried that you are going to be defeated. There are rumours that the Democrats are running scared after recent opinion polls showed their rivals to be way out in front. (usually in continuous tenses) …

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  • 132skid row — mainly American, informal a poor area in a city where people who have no jobs and homes live in cheap rooms or sleep outdoors. She works as a social worker with alcoholics on skid row …

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