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pair off

[for two people or other creatures] to form a couple or pair. All of them paired off and worked as teams to solve the puzzle. Everyone should pair off and discuss the issue for a while.

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Then, he and my sister would pair off in such nonsensical speculations about Miss Havisham, and about what she would do with me and for me, that I used to want - quite painfully - to burst into spiteful tears, fly at Pumblechook, and pummel him all over. Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context "Well, well," said Rochefort, "here is a chance which may pair off with the other The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context WOULD be the most appropriate motto for this chapter, because, intimidated by the threats, denunciations, and complaints showered upon me in consequence of taking the liberty to end a certain story as I liked, I now yield to the amiable desire of giving satisfaction, and, at the risk of outraging all the unities, intend to pair off everybody I can lay my hands on. An Old-Fashioned Girl by Alcott, Louisa May View in context			pad pad down pad out pad the bill paddle own canoe page paid pain pain in the ass pain in the neck paint paint a [bleak etc.] picture of paint a picture paint in paint into a corner paint on paint onto paint out paint over paint the town paint the town red paint with the same brush painted painting pair pair off pair up pal pal around pal up pale pale around the gills pale as a ghost pale at pale beside pale by comparison pale in comparison pall pally palm palm off palsy-walsy pan pan across to pan for pan out pan over pancake pander to pandora panic			Pair of glasses pair of pincers pair of pincers pair of pliers pair of pliers pair of pliers pair of scales pair of scales pair of scales pair of scales pair of scales pair of scissors pair of scissors pair of scissors pair of secateurs pair of shears pair of shears pair of shears Pair of stairs pair of steps pair of steps pair of steps pair of steps pair of tongs pair of tongs pair of tongs pair of trousers pair of tweezers pair of tweezers pair of virginals pair off Pair Orthogonality Constrained Variation Method Pair processes Pair processes pair production pair production Pair programming Pair royal Pair rule Pair rule Pair rule Pair rule genes Pair rule genes Pair rule genes Pair Stochastic Tree Adjoining Grammars Pair trawling pair up pair up pair up pair up pair up pair with Pair with Overall Shield pair, ion Pair-bond Pair-bond Pair-bonding Pair-bonding Pair-gain pair-oar Pair-royal

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