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brought

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be brought/called to account (formal)
to be forced to explain something you did wrong, and usually to be punished. What concerns us most is that the people responsible for the violence should be brought to account.
See also: account, call

look like something the cat brought/dragged in (informal)

if someone looks like something the cat brought in, they are very untidy and dirty. You can't possibly go to school like that - you look like something the cat dragged in!
See also: cat, drag, like, look, something
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