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ride the pine

In sports (especially baseball), to remain sitting on the bench, rather than be an active participant in the game. Primarily heard in US. I'm not going to play next year if coach makes me ride the pine again this season. I rode the pine for the rest of the game after I pulled my hamstring sliding to first base.
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pine away

To lapse into a period of intense depression or melancholy due to one's longing for or grief over someone or something. I stayed back in Seattle pining away, while she was over in Europe having the time of her life. My grandfather pined away for nearly a year after my grandmother died, until eventually his heart gave out and he passed away as well.
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pine after (someone or something)

To desire or grieve over someone or something so intensely that one becomes depressed or melancholy. You can't just sitting here pining after your ex-boyfriend. It's after—you need to get out there and live your life! I can't stand these kids who pine after the latest, most expensive tech gadgets, even when they literally have no need for them!
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pine over (someone or something)

To desire or grieve over someone or something so intensely that one becomes depressed or melancholy. You can't just sitting here pining over your ex-boyfriend. It's over—you need to get out there and live your life! I can't stand these kids who pine over the latest, most expensive tech gadgets, even when they literally have no need for them!
See also: over, pine

pine for (someone or something)

To desire or grieve over someone or something so intensely that one becomes depressed or melancholy. You can't just sitting here pining for your ex-boyfriend. It's over—you need to get out there and live your life! I can't stand these kids who pine for the latest, most expensive tech gadgets, even when they literally have no need for them!
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pine after someone or something

 and pine for someone or something; pine over someone or something
to long for or grieve for someone or something. Bob pined after Doris for weeks after she left. Dan is still pining for his lost dog. There is no point in pining over Claire.
See also: after, pine

pine away (after someone or something)

to waste away in melancholy and longing for someone or something. A year later, he was still pining away after Claire. Still, he is pining away.
See also: away, pine

ride the pine (or bench)

(of an athlete) not participate in a game or event, typically because of poor form. North American informal
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pine away

v.
To wither or waste away from longing or grief: After its owner was killed, the old dog pined away and died.
See also: away, pine

pine for

v.
To long or grieve intensely for someone or something: All summer he sat in the garden pining for his girlfriend back home. Many teachers pine for the days when students were better behaved.
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The Lone Pine Canyon burn will start as the weather allows, officials said.
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But here in the isolated Zuni Pine Barrens, the sandy soil still nurtures the longleaf pine.
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The objective of the Sustainable Forest Productivity Session was to speed the implementation of clonal loblolly pine plantations, thus making our forest and mill products more valuable.
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Evans notes that some regions, including northern Alabama, have abandoned pine plantations because of the beetle problem, as has Alabama's Bankhead National Forest:
Plantation pines: the paper industry moves South
Then he used dipnets (handheld nets) and seines (hanging nets) to look for tadpoles in the breeding ponds of both pine forests.
Where have all the gopher frogs gone? A scientist's froggy love led him to wonder why gopher frogs in one half of a local forest had disappeared
The average life expectancy on Pine Ridge is about 56 years for men and 60 for women--nearly 20 years lower than the national average.
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There's probably less emotion in my decisions compared to my dad's generation," says Brian Pine, as turf grass is harvested into sod strips and loaded onto pallets by two of the farm's several hired hands.
PLOWING THE SOUL OF A NEW GENERATION
Southern yellow pine is a name used to describe 10 species of conifers, all of them basically indistinguishable when sawn.
Southern yellow pine a longtime favorite
The new report also "shows for the first time that a pine.
Trees hog nitrogen to survive on tough turf
Once the decision was made to open the unit, Pine Tree worked closely with the Indiana State Board of Health and the U.
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Try a round on the South course at Torrey Pines Golf Club, which will be the site of the 2008 Open and has been in a toughening-up process for three years.
EXCURSION: TORREY PINES SOUTH CAN BE A BEAUTIFUL BEAST
Started in 1949, Forest Lawn is a "pristine 2000-acre wilderness camp with rolling hills and tall pine trees and a lake," says Brian Curtis, director of support services for the Council.
After burn: wildfire has destroyed forests across the West. Help is needed to restore the life-giving "natural capital" they provide
There are several products on the market that contain pine oil - a weak allergen that can cause central nervous system disorders in very large doses.
Batteries, neurotoxins and green food: the rundown on hazardous waste, Pine Sol and companies that care
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