(apportioning) in small amounts
cooking; food preparation
(social) standing; status; identity; birth; one's circumstances; one's means
to force open; to push open
large and rough; big and tough; unrefined; rustic; extreme; excessive
bottomless; endlessly deep; infinite
desire to tease; desire to cause mischief
to mishear; to hear wrongly; to misunderstand
tsk tsk; oh-oh; huh; what's that?
to disappear; to vanish; to bolt; to go into hiding
movie director; film director
sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
(in the) palm of someone's hand; (under) someone's complete control; (at) someone's mercy
foresight; foreknowledge; divination
grudge; complaint; reproach
cotton plant (Gossypium spp.); batting; wadding; padding
French person; Frenchman; Frenchwoman
golden child; promising young talent; (lit.) gold egg; golden egg; gold mine; cash cow
to resolve to do; to make up one's mind to do; to set one's heart on; to have one's heart set on
excessive meddling (esp. by parents); excessive interference
eldest son (may be the only son); first-born son
stupid face; foolish look on one's face
to be seething (with anger); to be frenzied; to be menacing; to be murderous
to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)
having no effect; waste of effort
not worth doing; waste of effort
train of dress; trailing skirt; woman who doesn't work and only thinks about fashion
to sit upright; to sit up straight; to take a defiant attitude; to become aggressive; to take the offensive
to sit cross-legged; to rest on one's laurels; to be self-complacent
to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include
shallow cunning; shallow cleverness