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failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards

1

assisting; assistance; fostering; aiding

3

manufacturing plant; production facility

1

personnel expenses; labor cost; labour cost; indirect labour costs; indirect labor costs

1

cost of materials

2

temporarily; short period; once; one morning

1

peacetime; time of peace; ordinary times; normal times

4

production; manufacture

4

to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off

1

to survive; to continue living; to escape death

1

redundancy

3

final destination; last stop; end; conclusion; goal

1

ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound

1

chamberlain

7

one's whole heart; everything one feels

1

document; writing; letter; document addressed to someone

3

elite bureaucrat; high government official; high-ranking bureaucrat; senior government official

3

subject; national

1

to come untied; to come apart; to be softened; to be relaxed

1

to worry about; to be anxious about; to be concerned about; to lament; to grieve; to feel sorrow for

1

emergency food distribution (esp. cooked rice)

1

to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine

1

spread (e.g. of a disease); rampancy; infestation; proliferation; being widespread

3

economic comeback (rebound, recovery, turnaround)

1

human nature; human heart; public feeling; people's sentiments; consciousness; awareness

1

economic measure

1

look; glance; sight; summary; list; table

2

absolute authority or power (over someone or something)

1

to not believe one's ears

1

having an aptitude (for); having a talent (for)

3

raw materials

1

to become empty; to be emptied

3

to rise; to flourish

2

panic; scare; alarm; panic; financial panic

1

to spend money

2

to get (much) colder; to deepen (cold); to feel cold (of the body); to be chilled to the bones; to worsen (of relations, economic conditions, etc.)

1

like water; like it grows on trees

1

skirmish; brush (with the enemy); small fight with a military enemy; squabble; quarrel; brief argument

4

a long way off; matter for the future; not going to happen anytime soon

1

diplomatic

1

return to one's country

1

on the way; en route; in the process of (development, construction, etc.); in the middle of

8

before one's very eyes; under one's nose; imminence; close at hand

2

very cheesy; very flashy; extremely gaudy

2

to mow down; to cut down; to knock down; to defeat; to beat

2

like-mindedness; (being of the) same mind; shared sentiment; comrade; fellow; kindred soul

1

for (some) doubtful points to remain

2

downfall; ruin; collapse; destruction

5

in name; on paper

2

staying the night; lodging (at)

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