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look who's talking; you're one to talk; you can talk

3

I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said

3

to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with

2

first meeting; first contest between

1

undiluted solution (of)

1

drinking straight from a bottle

1

to choke; to be choked (by); to sob convulsively

1

ten-odd; a dozen or so

4

bosom (buddy); trusted (friend)

1

to fire from a job; to dismiss; to discharge; to behead

4

invasion

1

upper grades of primary school (sixth, fifth, and sometimes fourth grades)

1

rise of the curtain; opening of a play; beginning (e.g. of an era); start; opening (of a tournament, festival, etc.)

1

living by oneself; living alone

2

several years

2

suspension; interruption; stoppage; tie-up; cessation

1

prescribed; designated; appointed; fixed

4

mark (for quick identification or recognition); sign; landmark; guide; (arch.) trademark

1

participant; entrant; player; competitor

1

condescending attitude; arrogant attitude; looking down on

2

prevailing view; common opinion; commonly accepted theory

2

weightlessness; zero gravity

4

prop; stay; support; brace; fulcrum

3

bone density

1

reconversion (of typed characters)

1

passing (an examination); making the grade

2

mouse; rat; dark gray; slate gray

3

pickles made in brine and fermented rice bran (esp. vegetables, also meat, fish, eggs, etc.)

1

playing in the mud; playing with mud

3

two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets (of paper); stanza; verse; tribe (in taxonomy); forecast (bet); bet which predicts the top 2 finishers (i.e. quinella or perfecta bet)

2

room

2

secret base; hideout; hidden position

3

to settle peacefully; to work out peacefully; to come to an amicable solution; to become reconciled

4

mumbling; chewing one's words; chewing (food); squirming; wriggling

8

unsightly; ugly; unseemly; indecent; deplorable; disgraceful

2

exactly; just; precisely; punctually; exactly on time

1

rise (e.g. of a movement); emergence; rearing one's head; gaining prominence; coming to the fore; gaining power

1

proxy; agent; substitute; deputy; alternate; representative

1

translation; version (e.g. "English version")

1

condition; figure; appearance; voice

1

iron plate; steel plate; sure thing; certain winner

2

flaked bonito

1

to bend loosely back and forth; to wriggle; to be crooked

4

to be oppressed by heat; to swelter; to boil; to seethe

1

top secret mission

1

technical term; terminology; jargon

1

world; society; people; the public

2

showing one's face in public; facing another person

1

winner; victor; conqueror

1

time is money

1