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strain
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be straining at the leash
to be very eager to do something that you are being prevented from doing at the present time. Meanwhile we hear that our soldiers have reached a peak of fitness and are straining at the leash.
See also: leash

strain every nerve

to try extremely hard to do something. I was straining every nerve to catch what they were saying but they were sitting just a bit too far away from me.
See also: every, nerve

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Yellow tubing and red tubing were not tested because the tubing slipped out of the custom fittings at strain values of greater than 200%.
Typhimurium strains isolated in the Republic of Georgia at strains isolated in the Republic of Georgia at about the same time, which were grouped into five PFGE types distinct from that of the outbreak-causing strain.
The following is proposed to explain the linearity of G" versus G' at strains above 10%.
 
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