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Tagged by DCDuring but not listed. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:02, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

keep. However, there's need for a definition for "I need to work on my technique, if I want to win the competition. Maybe # practise would cover it. --Rising Sun talk? 23:41, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure that we have a good test to differentiate a "phrasal verb" sense of the collocation (includable) from a non-phrasal verb, non-idiomatic sense, but this sense might not be idiomatic. I don't have access to a reference that has grammatical tests for these. (CGEL, the only comprehensive modern reference grammar I have convenient access to, doesn't mention the term "phrasal verb" except to say they won't use it. The reject the purported examples as non-constituents and therefore non-verbs. Thus a phrasal verb is nt a verb.)

Keep. Who tagged this anyway? This would seem to resemble other "phrasal verbs". Some general dictionaries and some idiom dictionaries have it. McGraw-Hill Dict of Amer Idioms and Phrasal Verbs (henceforth "MHDAIPV") has 5 senses, 2 for things, 3 for persons/animate objects. DCDuring TALK 01:16, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

who indeed?. Keep per nomination. Mglovesfun (talk) 22:22, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

I just added a couple of usage examples for the moment. Quotes along the same lines would be easy to find if needed. -- ALGRIF talk 15:53, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Kept, 100% majority for a keep (including the nominator) is a pretty rare thing. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:13, 24 December 2009 (UTC)