half and half; fifty-fifty
stern; grim; rough; rugged; forbidding; overbearing
vigour; vigor; virility; health; sturdiness
framework (of a building); foundation; mainstay; support; supporter
things left (to one) by the deceased; inherited item; estate; lost item; lost property
all over; everywhere; in every nook and cranny; brightly; clearly
fraction; odd sum; odd money; small change; (arch.) low class female servant
while I have the opportunity (I'd also like to say ...); by the way; incidentally; in passing
cannot do without something; indispensable; absolutely necessary; have to do
how; in what way; how about; questionable
bank; weir; embankment; levee
(volcanic) crater; caldera; burner (of a boiler)
gas; vapour; vapor; gaseous body
looking pale; looking unwell
habit; behavior; behaviour; trait
end; limit; bounds; extremity; result; fate
to succeed (in doing); to manage to do; to accomplish; to carry off; to pull off
for some reason or other; somehow or other; by some chance
self-assessment; self-evaluation; self-rating; self-esteem
long time; several hours; long spell
at regular intervals; evenly spaced
single horseman; wait for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand; wait for half of one's pair with four melds completed
what is colloquially called; what is commonly referred to as; what is popularly known as; so-called
to do ... incessantly; to do ... hard; (arch.) to happen repeatedly; (arch.) to happen over and over again
joint resource; shared resource
secrecy; highly classified information
tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism; treading a tightrope; walking on thin ice; pulling a risky balancing act
release (of information, documents, etc.); disclosure; display; discovery
inner structure; internal anatomy
unspecified large number (of people)
so to speak; so to call it; as it were; in a sense
redoing; doing over again
to brace oneself; to focus one's energies; to focus one's mind
quick on the uptake; quick to catch on; perceptive; intuitive
goes without saying; needless to say; obvious
supply; supplying; replenishment
to become overgrown; to grow thick; to spread; to run rampant; to thrive
to sit cross-legged; to rest on one's laurels; to be self-complacent
to get encouraged; to become heightened in spirits; to recover one's strength