to keep to oneself; to keep secret
monologue; soliloquy; talking to oneself
mediation; good offices; influential person; person of influence; (arch.) eloquence; (arch.) eloquent person
retribution; retributive justice; karma; just deserts; poetic justice; reward and punishment for one's past behavior
after a short while; not long after; soon; before long; shortly thereafter
feeling chilly; nervous; anxious; frightened
readiness to die; (in the) face of death
fixed date; settlement date
to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake
little power; little influence; (one's) poor ability; limited ability; what little one can do
protracted war; war of attrition
guerrilla; guerrilla warfare; sudden
explanation; interpretation
putting that aside; that said; apart from that; anyway; be that as it may
perhaps; possibly; by some chance; by some possibility
tummy; tumtum; bang-bang; pop-pop; without reservation; unreservedly
field battle; field operations; open battle; battlefield; battlefront
to head towards; to direct one's steps to
bare minimum; minimum necessary (amount, number, etc.)
what with this and that; for a number of reasons
to change facial expression or color (due to anger, embarrassment, etc.)
urine; piss; pee; breaking a contract
really (seem, appear, etc.); truly; evidently; in that way
outline; summary; gist; roughly; about; nearly
missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown
established (certain) fact
spreading around (news, rumor, etc.); making widely known; making public; publicizing; proclaiming
handling things like an adult; behaving like a mature grown-up
alteration; falsification; faking
muzzling (a person); preventing (a person) from revealing something; silencing (a person); murdering (a person) to prevent them from revealing something
to refuse; to reject; to decline; to prevent (from doing); to deny (e.g. access); to block
waiting room; anteroom; antechamber; green room
one's youth; early life; one's early days; one's early years
surely; certainly; no doubt; indeed
fine line; weight of thread; slit-eyed
polite; courteous; hospitable
simply put; putting it simply; in short
sublimation; sublimating (an emotion, impulse, etc.); channelling; diverting
systematization; systematisation; organization; organisation