about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
to pour in (liquids); to pour in (money); to pump in (investment)
substance; true form; main part; main unit; object of worship (at a shrine, temple, etc.); noumenon
to fail; to blunder; to mess up; to be dismissed; to be fired
(several) tens; dozens; scores (of)
dizzily; giddily; spinning; boiling up
chaos; confusion; disorder; chaotic; confused; uncertain
prime location (for offices, housing, etc.); best district (in town); excellent piece of land
closely contested constituency; highly competitive marketplace; (fig.) battleground
going to and from school; school commute
show; display; pretensions; pose; posture
reverse side of a paper; reading between the lines
sharp (eyes, ears, etc.); keen; acute; sharp-witted; shrewd; clever
to slide; to glide; to slip; to skid; to be slippery; to fail (an examination); to lose (a position)
table tennis club; ping-pong club
to slouch; to stoop; to bend forward; to lean forward
anywhere; for all time; through thick and thin; come hell or high water; persistently; stubbornly
inclination; tendency; nature; character
to have a catch; to have an ulterior motive; to be more (to something)
retreat; retirement; depression (hole)
to square one's shoulders (in order to intimidate)
apart from that; other than that; leaving that aside; more importantly; more ... than that; but
tension; resilience (e.g. of hair); springiness; will power; spirit
cache; place to hide something
to leave in the dark; to leave out in the cold; to keep out of the loop; (lit.) to leave outside the mosquito net
just; right; pure; genuine; truth
indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)
in the ground; in the earth; underground; subterranean
sneakily; secretly; stealthily; on the sly
every corner; every nook and cranny; all the ins and outs
being watchful; keeping watch; keeping an eye open
pretending to respect (someone) while in fact staying distant; keeping at arm's length; avoiding (something unpleasant); shying away from; giving (the batter) an "intentional walk"
battlefield; battleground
example; simile; metaphor; allegory
to make a display of one's originality (eccentricity); to deliberately act oddly (e.g. to get attention)
to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to pierce something all the way through
there's nothing we (I, he, she, etc.) don't have; nonexistent; not in one's possession; we (I, he, she, etc.) don't have what we don't have