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Match each term to it's sentence.
The boys from two rival camps decided to compete for a gallon of ice cream. The winning team would get to divide the spoils and the losing team would get nothing.
Judy always comes to work late, and I think the boss is going to fire her soon. Her days are numbered.
I was surprised that there was so little traffic in the morning and that I was the first one to arrive at work. When no one else had shown up by 8:30, it finally dawned on me that it was a holiday.
Mary thought their business venture was promising, but she didn’t have a lot of money, so she told them to deal her out.
We decided the time had come to make a decision and act on it. As Harvey said to me, “It’s do or die.”
Jeff told me that the diet I was trying was showing results, and he asked how much more weight I had to lose. He was really telling me that I’m still too fat. He was damning me with faint praise.
The voters know very little about Mr. Johnson, but he’s a dark horse and I think he’ll win the election.
Yesterday, the boss said none of us could take our vacations in June. Then this morning, he did an about-face and said we could.
Crystal tried to wake her sons to get them on their way to school, but they had stayed out until well past midnight and now they were dead to the world. Nothing could rouse them.
Liz must have seen that Tim was a diamond in the rough, because she asked him out, and now they’re getting married.