(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience
loungewear; comfortable clothing worn at home
first floor; ground floor; one floor; one storey; one rank
atrocious; fiendish; brutal; villainous
discovery; detection; finding
to be caught; to be arrested; to hold on to; to grasp; to find (e.g. proof); to get (e.g. a taxi)
to throw into; to toss into
drink; drinking; spigot; tap (in a cask, etc.); stock market bucketing; bookmaking
and then; in addition to that; also; even so
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
chorus; singing in a chorus
to love; to cherish; to show favouritism to; to be partial to; to fondle; to caress
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series
child's face; childlike face; boyish face; baby face
specific; particular; designated; specifying; designating; identifying
unconsciousness; unconscious; involuntary; the unconscious (psychoanalysis)
cannot (do); it is impossible that...; it is (highly) unlikely that...
coming; going; being (somewhere); come; go; stay
to look around; to survey
to fall fast asleep; to be confined to one's bed; to be laid up
judgment; judgement; divination; judgement
yo!; hello there!; wow!; oh!; yah! (yell)
heir; inheritor; successor
chair; stool; post; office; position
straight to the point; point-blank; frank; direct
to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
destruction; annihilation; devastation; catastrophe
course (of events); development; progress; market order; order without limit
in a hurry; hastily; in feverish haste
to come alive; to get going; to start to move
life; life force; lifetime; lifespan; most important thing; foundation
a short time ago; a while ago; for some time
to catch; to capture; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street); towards (someone); at (someone)
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter
poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite