In actual speech, in actual practice, that "VE" mostly disappears. A couple of the longer answers wobbled, namely FLEW A KITE, which is a 8/10 on the "EAT A SANDWICH" scale of "arbitrary blank-a-blank" verb phrases (extra points for the past tense!), and YOU'VE GOT THIS!, which colloquially, in practice, seems far more likely to be said YOU GOT THIS! I see that both versions are in use, but the full, grammatically correct version of the phrase sounds stilted, like someone trying to use an expression not at all natural to them. SAKE BOMB, EXTRA MILE, and NIGHT OWLS were the high points for me.
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