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Barrel of laughs
If someone's a barrel of laughs, they are always joking and you find them funny.

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Pork barrel
Pork barrel politics involves investing money in an area to get political support rather than using the money for the common good.

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Over a barrel
If someone has you over a barrel, they have you in a position where you have no choice but to accept what they want.

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Scraping the barrel
When all the best people, things or ideas and so on are used up and people try to make do with what they have left, they are scraping the barrel.

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Stare down the barrel of a gun
If someone is staring down the barrel of a gun, there's a high risk of something very bad happening.

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Lock, stock and barrel
This is an expressions that means 'everything'; if someone buys a company lock, stock and barrel, they buy absolutely everything to do with the company.

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Shooting fish in a barrel
If something is like shooting fish in a barrel, it is so easy that success is almost guaranteed. Example: "For my first exam I was really nervous and worried that it would be too difficult for me, but it was actually as easy as shooting fish in a barrel!"

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