claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
management; managerial position; administrative post; person in a managerial position
underling; person of low standing; grunt; petty (work, official, etc.); minor; lowly
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
in perfect form; going swimmingly
to become possible; to become able to (do)
with my own (two) eyes; with these very eyes
day after day; day by day
to make someone cry; to move someone to tears; to grieve
to relapse; to reassert; to review
to sigh; to breathe a sigh
furnished with; including; attached to; impression; appearance; luck; sociality
quietly; softly; seriously; solemnly; sadly
to feel anxious; to feel nervous; fluttering down; trickling down (e.g. tears); hanging untidily (of hair); straggling
10,000,000,000; ten billion
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
to expose; to lay open (e.g. secret); to take apart; to disassemble; to kill; to murder; to dress (meat)
sincerely; earnestly; repeatedly; over and over; again and again
guidance; leadership; leading the way
to give up on; to turn one's back (on); to abandon; to forsake; to dump (e.g. romantic partner)
(with a) thump; (hanging) straight down
to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly
blind alley; cul-de-sac; dead end street; deadlock; impasse; dead end
hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit
to rub; to pat; to stroke; to massage
to become tense; to be tightened; to become firm (e.g. body)
shame; embarrassment; disgrace
the height of folly; sheer stupidity
once in a lifetime; the first and last occurrence (event, experience) of one's lifetime
cutting through cloth; sound of cutting through cloth; shrieking sound; woman's scream; cry of the lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
loser; defeated person; the defeated
to go home; (arch.) to go; (arch.) to leave; (arch.) to pass (of time); (arch.) to die; (arch.) to go bad
to look attractive; to look nice
presenter; speaker; performer; actor; participant (in a TV show or TV panel)