split up
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#English #verb #Idioms #esl

split up (https://www.english-slang.com/eng/?redir=7479-split-up)  {v. phr.}
1. To separate; get a divorce.
After three years of marriage, the unhappy couple finally split up.
2. To separate something; divide into portions.
The brothers split up their father's fortune among themselves after his death.
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by and by
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by and by (https://www.english-slang.com/eng/?redir=1000-by-and-by)  {adv.}
After a while; at some time in the future; later.
Roger said he would do his homework by and by.
The mother knew her baby would be a man by and by and do a man's work.
Syn.: AFTER A WHILE (https://www.english-slang.com/eng/?redir=53-after-a-while).
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I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. --Woody Allen (1935--)
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dead letter
https://www.english-slang.com/eng/american/i_d/1734-dead-letter

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dead letter (https://www.english-slang.com/eng/?redir=1734-dead-letter)  {n. phr.}
An undeliverable letter that ends up in a special office holding such letters.
There is a dead letter office in most major cities.
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