private property; personal belongings; personal effects
important matter; matter of great importance; serious affair; major incident; emergency
corresponding to (in meaning, function, etc.); being equivalent to; appropriate; suitable; to be proportionate to; to be in keeping with
to feel down; to feel sad; to be in a slump (business, economy, etc.); to be in an unfavourable condition; to fall into (e.g. a hole)
gloomy; melancholy; dreary; depressed; dismal
to reach an extreme; to reach a limit; extremely; to be stuck; to be in a dilemma; to be decided
nothing but; none other than
to go against; to fight against; to oppose; to resist; to deny
to visit; to call on; to pay a visit to
confused (situation); great fuss; much wrangling
to leave; to go away; to pass; to elapse; to be distant; to send away; to drive off
deletion; elimination; erasure; striking out
pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
to plan; to plot; to attempt (e.g. suicide, murder); to undertake (e.g. business); (arch.) to stand on tip-toes
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
worm-eaten; moth-eaten; holes eaten in clothing, leaves, etc. by caterpillars, moths, etc.; leaf warbler (any bird of genus Phylloscopus); chiffchaff
to finger; to touch; to make changes to; to tinker with; to dabble in; to do as a hobby
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
right; correct; proper; righteous; just
ninth day of the month; nine days
internal (e.g. disk); built-in; equipped (with)
coincidence; agreement; conformity; consistency; cooperation
number of days; period of days; daily interest rate
to make a mistake; to mess up; to make an error; to err
single; simple; singles (tennis, badminton, etc.); win bet (bet which predicts the winner of a race)
to (an extent); up to; doesn't amount to doing ...; not significant enough to require ...; even if ...
to accept; to receive (an application); to (be able to) take (food, medicine, etc.); to bear; to be affected by; to take damage from
dumbfounded; overcome with surprise; in blank amazement; in a daze
desperation; despair; self-abandonment
to spit out; to eject; to dump
to press for an answer; to shower questions on someone
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
to allow; to let (somebody) do; to make (somebody) do
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre
leaping; activity; leapfrog (over a problem); making a leap (e.g. in logic); making great strides; making rapid progress
by all means; at any cost; whether (one is) willing or not; willingly or unwillingly; on no account; by no means
to give an answer; to find an answer to a question; to work out a solution
willpower; energy; vitality
to turn on one's heel; to turn back; to return