jpdb beta

sourness; acidity

1

sweetness; sugary taste; sweets; dessert; cake

4

abundant; rich; ripe; mellow

1

fruit juice

1

eating with one's fingers; snitching food; snatched food; embezzlement; misappropriation; flirting

2

please don't fuss over me; don't go to any trouble; don't bother

2

direct

1

pan; frying pan; panning (a camera)

4

to badger; to pester; to beg

3

talkativeness; garrulity; loquacity

5

to act (a part); to play (a role); to perform (a play, etc.); to put on (a production); to commit (a blunder); to disgrace oneself

11

to be wide-awake; to be wakeful; to be unable to sleep

1

to let out a cry; to break forth

1

flood; flooding

1

logical

2

no chance of; no way that; certainly not; will never happen

5

to put to use; to make use of; to turn to account

1

residential area; quarter; neighbourhood; neighborhood

14

aim; goal; prospect; outlook

1

water well

2

tonight; this evening

1

to dig; to excavate; to delve into; to dig up (e.g. vegetables); (for two men) to have anal sex

13

rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown

9

mantle; cloak; manteau

5

indeed; really; very; extremely; absolutely; certainly

1

to prick up one's ears and listen; to listen attentively

3

history book

1

blank space (in documents); vacuum; blank; void

7

barren land; sterile soil; wasteland

3

to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember

22

to bloom in profusion

1

historic; historical

3

to get down to business; to cut to the chase; to get straight to the point; to move on to the main subject

7

treasure

4

direct control; direct supervision

2

historian

3

to strike (gold, oil, etc.); to find (e.g. buried treasure); to dig up

1

profound; deep; deep (of a cave, etc.); innermost; interior

4

to burrow through; to dig through

6

the prospects look brighter; there is hope of accomplishing (something)

1

law-like nature; regularity

1

fingers; fingertips; underling; stooge; tool

11

to have a (rough) idea (of what the situation is)

2

to ask elsewhere; to try another (store, service, etc.)

1

it is darkest under the lamp post; it's hard to see what is under your nose; go abroad to hear of home; you must go into the country to hear what news at London

1

treasure

6

middle of the night; dead of night

13

to creep in; to steal in; to sneak in

2

defense; defence; guard; policing; security

10

exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)

1