papier-mâché tiger (toy with a loose, wobbly head); paper tiger; someone (or something) who is all bark and no bite; man of straw
poor; meagre; meager; feeble; scanty; shabby
very great; enormous; serious
I; me; myself; (arch.) we; (arch.) us; (arch.) ourselves
half the number; half (of an amount); haploid (organism, cell, etc.); haplont
to get stuck with (some job); to end up with (something unpleasant)
somewhat; to some extent; to some degree; some; part; portion
to keep within limits (e.g. spending); to restrain (e.g. emotions); to control; to hold back (e.g. an enemy); to check; to curb
eloquence; fluency (of speech)
true state; actual condition; reality
youngster; boy; young Buddhist monk; young bonze; young shop-boy; errand boy
knothole; peep-hole; (fig.) bad eyes; tunnel vision
with a bang; with a crash; with a bump; suddenly (fall); sharply
presence (of a nobleman, the emperor, etc.); outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade); My Lord; My Lady
adjutant; aide; aide-de-camp
to follow; to accompany; to serve; to work under; to obey
reluctantly; grudgingly; unwillingly
on the occasion of; at the time of; when; during
to use up; to exhaust; to wear out
disposal; abandonment; scrapping; annulment; cancellation; abrogation
empty seat; unoccupied seat; vacancy; vacant post
to entrust (to someone); to leave (in someone's hands)
the latter; the second; successor; descendant
to tell (a story); to give an account of (an event, experience, etc.); to relate; to tell of; to show; to indicate
genuine article; real thing; real deal
scheme; plot; artifice; stratagem; trick
particularly; only; in the case of
head; brains; intellect; understanding
information leak; intelligence leak
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
in process; during execution; runtime
to bring (someone) back home; to take (someone) back home
to be muffled; to be mumbled; to be muttered
(distinction of) sex; gender
to distinguish; to discern; to make out; to tell
... or something (like that); ... or whatever; so-called ...; a certain ...
area; region; district; locality
operating (e.g. of trains, cars); running; working