to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
contract; compact; agreement
to tickle; to tickle (one's curiosity, vanity, etc.); to arouse; to make (someone) laugh; to amuse
to take a breath; to take a short rest
obstruction; prevention; hindrance; check; blocking; stopping
lady (of high social status; e.g. scholar, artist, critic, politician); Ms; Mrs; Miss
to take a breather; to take a rest; to catch one's breath; to take a breath
dark brown; colour of tanned skin
bow (weapon); archery; bow (for a violin, etc.)
distant place; faraway location; far away
projection; protrusion; rupture (e.g. of gas); jetting out; prominence; standing out
to shoot (arrow, bolt, dart)
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
admiration; being impressed (by)
to push into; to cram into; to stuff into; to break in; to burgle; to burglarize
horizon (related to land)
to spread out (e.g. a futon); to lay out; to lay down (e.g. a cushion); to impose widely (e.g. martial law); to promulgate; to pin down; to hold down
line of defence (defense); lines (as in enemy lines, etc.)
reduction; curtailment; cut; cutback; scaling down; contraction
if that is the case; if it becomes so; when it becomes so
to anticipate; to foresee
to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)
hard problem; person hard to please; hard nut to crack
depending on; as soon as; immediately after; as (e.g. "as one is told", "as one wishes"); whatever (e.g. "whatever is at hand"); order; program
highly skilled; skillful; very capable; particularly able person; master-hand; person of ability
arrowhead; target of a flying arrow; brunt (of an attack); the very moment (when); the point (of doing)
under one's eyes; below one's eyes
bizarre plan; perplexing strategy; outlandish scheme
atrocious; heinous; fiendish; brutal; vicious
lack of policy; having no measures; lacking means
burden; load; responsibility; bearing (a cost, responsibility, etc.); shouldering
to surround; to crowd around; to gather around; to encircle; to besiege
to kill (with a weapon); to slay; to defeat (an opponent); to beat
first-class goods; A-grade product
to jump down; to leap down; to jump off; to leap off
imbalance; disproportion; disparity; mismatch; asymmetry
to have an audience (with); to have an interview (with); to meet; to see
to mistake (A for B); to misread