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get the kinks (ironed) out
Fig. to fix a problem associated with something. The actors had to get the kinks out before they were ready to present the play to an audience. That'll be a right nice car, when you get the kinks ironed out in the engine.
See also: get, out

kink up

[for something] to develop kinks or tangles. The leather parts tend to shrink and kink up in the damp weather. My hair kinks up in this weather.
See also: up

iron out the kinks  (mainly American)
to get rid of any problems that you are having with the way that you are doing something The team was still trying to iron out the kinks in their game in the last quarter.
See pump iron, rule with a rod of iron, strike while the iron is hot
See also: iron, out


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5 mm diameter cable, no curve should be tighter than 30 cm, and absolutely avoid kinking it, crushing it, stepping on it, rolling a chair over it, or rolling a cart over it, or otherwise flattening it out.
We gently placed the heart partly in the heart cavity and partly in the stomach cavity without twisting, kinking or rotating anything," cardiac surgeon A K Bishoi who operated on the boy told the Hindustan Times newspaper.
We gently placed the heart partly in the heart cavity and partly in the stomach cavity without twisting, kinking or rotating anything," cardiac surgeon A K Bishoi who operated on the boy told the Hindustan Times newspaper.
 
 
 
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