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rise to the occasion |
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rise to the occasion to succeed in dealing with a difficult situation. It's not easy to play your first match in front of a crowd that size but he certainly rose to the occasion. rise to the occasion to do what is needed at the time. When a crisis hits, will you rise to the occasion? She needed some help, so I rose to the occasion and volunteered my services. |
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She was very weak; she could not rise to the occasion, or realize the great mystery which all agree must await her; it only seemed to her that she was quite done up--more done up than ever before; that she saw and heard and felt less every moment; and that, unless something changed, she would soon feel nothing. And when the last cup of flour was gone and the last rind of bacon, she was able to rise to the occasion, and of moccasins and the softer-tanned bits of leather in the outfit to make a grub-stake substitute that somehow held a man's soul in his body and enabled him to stagger on. |
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rise to the occasion
