[run around] or [chase around] {v.}, {informal} To go to different places for company and pleasure; be friends. * /Tim hasn't been to a dance all year; with school work […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

cut up

[cut up] {v.} 1. {informal} To hurt the feelings of; wound. - Usually used in the passive. * /John was badly cut up when Susie gave him back his ring./ […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

pure and simple

[pure and simple] {adj.} Simply stated; basic. - Follows the noun it modifies and is used for emphasis. * /The problem, pure and simple, is finding a baby-sitter./ * /The […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

go Dutch

[go Dutch] {v. phr.}, {informal} To go out for fun together but have each person pay for himself. * /High school students often go Dutch to basketball games./ * /Sometimes […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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Napoleon Bonaparte

You can stop while you are raising, but not when you are falling.

many hands make light work

[many hands make light work] If many people work together, even a hard job becomes easier. - A proverb. * /Come on boys, […]

up and at them

[up and at them] 1. {adv. phr.} Actively engaged in a task as if doing combat. * /"You want to know whether he will make a […]