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With overage charges, she has had cell phone bills of $140 a month. If energy costs increase, tenants have to pay overage charges to cover the difference between the current rate and the rate when they signed their lease.

She had to leave the youth team when the coaches discovered she was overage.

We have at least 1,000 unsold units and insufficient warehouse facilities to store the overage. The fund showed an overage of several thousand pounds at the end of the quarter.

We made a reverse-charge call to the New York office.

Thousands of people taking out pensions have been hit by crippling sales charges.

The bomb attack dealt a crippling blow to tourism in the country. crippling debts

Economic sanctions have crippled the country’s economy.

The back end of a car actually has more effect on drag than the front end.

We need a different kind of decision making at the front end of the process. Poor harvests may be the front end of climate change.

It is important to know how the back end and front end of computers interact with each other. Nokia chose Razorfish to design the front end of its first website.

This loan contains no front-end sales charges.

Pick the chair up instead of dragging it behind you!

She had to drag her kids away from the toys.

She's always dragging sex into the conversation.

They found the man's body after dragging the canal.

The first half of the movie was interesting but the second half dragged (on).

Filling in forms is such a drag!

Engineers are always looking for ways to minimize drag when they design new aircraft.

Taking a deep drag of/on his cigarette he closed his eyes and sighed.

a man in drag

They should make a decision now instead of dragging out the discussion.

Keeping a large staff is a drag on our income.; High energy prices will continue to be a drag on the economy.

Sales have been dragging this month. Jewellery exports will be dragged by weak consumer confidence caused by world economic turmoil.

There's a great little restaurant just off the main drag.

a town’s most important street, where most of the businesses are

Look, I don't want to get into a knock-down-drag-out fight with you over this, so let's forget it.

We must not be drawn into the mire of civil war.

I suspect the management is dragging its heels on this issue.

The company said earnings have been dragged down by high start-up costs.

I'm ready to go home now, but I don't want to drag you away if you're enjoying yourself. I'll bring Tom, if I can drag him away from the TV.

All that stress at work had begun to drag him down.

Don't drag me into your argument! It has nothing to do with me.

You never tell me how you feel - I always have to drag it out of you.

He was hauled over the coals for coming in late for work.

A crab scuttled away under a rock as we passed. The children scuttled off as soon as the headteacher appeared.

to intentionally sink a ship by opening a hole in the bottom or sides

Angry workers scuttled all hope of quick agreement on a new contract.

Arriving late for the interview scuppered my chances of getting the job.

Exporting pine to Scandinavia seems like carrying coals to Newcastle.

My roommate always tries to weasel out of doing the dishes.; Although they had signed the contract they tried to weasel out of the deal later.

to avoid doing something that you have agreed to do, especially by being dishonest:

He was hauled over the coals for coming in late for work.

They hauled the boat out of the water.; They use these trucks to haul freight.

The police hauled him off to jail in front of his whole family.

She was arrested, fingerprinted, and hauled before a judge. If you even mention my name in public, I’ll haul you right into court!

a haul of arms/drugs; Police say it is the largest haul of stolen art in years.

Fishermen have been complaining of poor hauls all year.

From there it was a long haul/only a short haul back to our camp.

short-haul flights It’s a long haul to Minnesota.

In 2006, shippers on the Great Lakes hauled 110 million tons of cargo.

haul sb (up) before/in front of sb/sth The EU gave the government two months to come up with a good case or be hauled up before the European Court of Justice.

She was lounging on the beach.

30 people have filed suit against the company.

a dark blue suit and pants with gray pinstripes

The whole story was a vicious libel.

libel suit/lawsuit: They filed a libel lawsuit against the person responsible for the web posting.

She regarded his comment as a slander on her good reputation.

Where is the line between slander and free speech?

an op-ed article/column/page