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kick around

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kick someone around
to treat someone badly. When his boss didn't promote him, he felt as if he'd been kicked around long enough, and he finally quit. He represents every big guy that's ever kicked around a little guy.
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kick something around
to discuss something. I don't know who will be on the committee, but we've kicked a lot of names around. Black intellectuals have been kicking around the idea since the beginning of the twentieth century.
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kick around
to exist. She is one of the most creative people kicking around advertising today.
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Roberto Alvarez then dashed any hopes of a Viewpoint comeback in the 64th minute, bending a 20-yard free kick around the Patriots' wall and inside the right post to increase the lead to 3-1.
BOYS' SOCCER: PATRIOTS CAN'T FIND WAY BACK FALL BEHIND TO ANIMO, LOSE ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
But for the first time in many years, the possibility exists that Biharis won't have Lalu Prasad Yadav to kick around anymore.
With relief slow to arrive, earthquake death toll continues to rise ... by Ali, M.M. / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
IT'S A SAFE BET you won't have Los Angeles to kick around any more.
L.A. report: the language of curves by Looseleaf, Victoria / Dance Magazine
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