whereabouts; place; location; place where one belongs; where one fits in; place where one can be oneself
masterwork; masterpiece; crowning work; one's magnum opus; work of the highest quality
to take out; to carry out; to bring out from where it belongs; to mention something; to broach a topic; to bring up (a subject)
force; unit; corps; squad; troops; party
standing by; awaiting an opportunity; being on alert
ordinary person; member of the general public; non-celebrity
how many people; a number of people
walking briskly; determinedly
useless; futile; unnecessary; needless; not on business; unrelated
to entrust (e.g. a task) to another; to leave to; to passively leave to someone else's facilities; to leave to take its natural course; to continue (something) in a natural fashion (without particular aim); to rely fully on one's (full strength, great ability, long time taken) to get something done
distance; journey; itinerary; path (e.g. to one's goal); way; process
half; 50%; tie; 5 parts; 5%
sign of life; human presence; humanity; humaneness
smoothly; with a slipping or sliding motion
base of the throat; bottom of the neck
generation of heat; (attack of) fever; pyrexia
beat; palpitation; pulsation; throbbing
to become quiet; to quiet down; to quieten down; to calm down; to die down; to subside
gradually; steadily; slowly; little by little; step by step; by degrees
but; however; provided that
to use excessively; to use too much; to spend too much; to overwork someone
three times; thrice; third (musical interval); many times; over and over again
some; any; please; anyway; anyhow
reaching; attaining; arrival
calculation; reckoning; count; forecast
trump card; ace up one's sleeve; secret weapon
to be a matter of life or death
to work too hard; to try too hard; to strain oneself; to overdo it; to go too far
since then; from that time; ever since
to ask a big favour; to ask unreasonable things; to be unreasonable
to take back; to recapture