to compromise; to meet halfway; to step up to; to walk up to; to approach
soil; breeding ground; fertile ground (for); foundation (for the development of ...)
brewing; fermenting; arousing; causing; creating
management; (executive) staff; leaders; leadership; top brass; upper echelons
in; on; at (place); as for; regarding
settlement; solution; resolution
honestly speaking; in truth; in all honesty; to be frank
to smile (at); to grin (at)
a short time ago; a while ago; for some time
decisive battle; deciding match; play-off
tangle; entanglement; snarl; complication; difficulties; trouble
the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come
to hold hands; to join hands; to do together; to go arm in arm; to join forces; to link hands
exactly as stated; verbatim
we are of equal status in this regard; we are in the same boat; the same to you; the feeling is mutual
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
insane; crazy; nuts; out of one's mind
clamour; clamor; uproar; tumult; furore; furor
individual; private person; personal; private
to revive; to come to oneself; to be restored to life
to lose sight of; to miss
to find out; to discover; to locate
near; close; beside; third person
goal; target; aim; mark; sign; landmark
hypothesis; supposition; assumption
to continue (for a long time); to occur in succession; to come next (e.g. on TV)
to join hands together; to join forces; to collaborate
to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up
cookie; biscuit; cookie (browser-related file sent from a WWW server)
to receive; to get; to accept; to take; to interpret; to understand
to pour into; to wash down; to insert (e.g. into a data stream)
(getting a) perfect score; scoring 100; grading students on a scale of one hundred; doing perfectly (in a test); leaving nothing to be desired
to spoil; to ruin; to destroy; to make a mess of
elegant; refined; polished; high-quality goods; first-class article
to open one's eyes wide (in anger, surprise, etc.); to goggle at
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
what with this and that; for a number of reasons
to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to set free; to let go; to fail to ...
endurance; patience; perseverance; self-control; self-restraint
to open the lid; to lift a lid; to open the lid (on); to make public; to start (something); to look at the results (consequences, outcome, effect)
regrettable; vexing; upsetting; unthinkable; wholly unexpected