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coming out; going out; attending (work); appearing (on stage); start; beginning; origins

2

pride

4

unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful

1

recruiting; job offer; job vacancy

1

one way or the other; either way

1

showman; show manager

2

suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange

1

singer

1

concert

4

one more; another; the other; not quite; not very good; lacking

2

to get (a joke or explanation); to strike home; to click; to know intuitively

2

office worker; salaried worker; white-collar worker

1

intention; wish; purpose; mind (to do)

3

hereditary disposition; temperament; nature; (arch.) body build

2

rare

1

second anniversary of a death

1

on purpose; deliberately; intentionally

5

disagreeableness; unpleasantness; nastiness; cutting remark; disagreeable remark; snide comment

4

tedious; boring; being fed up with

2

lasting long; continuation; keeping at (something); sticking to (something)

1

to support; to maintain; to bring up; to raise; to adopt (a child); to cultivate (a habit, a quality, etc.)

2

thinly; slightly; vaguely; a little

6

good-for-nothing; worthless

1

to settle down (and deal with something); to concentrate all one's energy (on something); to settle oneself (in a place); to settle down (somewhere); to take a solid stance; to lower one's center of gravity (centre)

1

discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability

2

repetitious; long-winded; heavy (taste); (overly) rich; gaudy (colour, design, etc.); loud

3

mother and child

2

love is blind; (lit.) (when in love) even pockmarks are dimples

1

love is blind

1

being in love with each other

3

it's not like; it isn't as if

2

bad feeling; feeling bad; disagreeable; unpleasant; revolting; gross

2

nothing more ... than this; as ... as it could possibly be

1

yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?

8

so far as

1

doing whatever one pleases

2

to smoke; to breathe in; to suck; to sip; to absorb; to soak up

3

to smoke (a cigarette); to behave as ...; to accelerate; to rev up

1

to speak badly (of); to speak ill (of); to bad-mouth

4

to become less crowded; to thin out; to get empty; to be hungry

5

to feel as though ...

2

regarding; in; to; towards; with regards to

6

to do (something) to spite (someone); to rebuke indirectly; to make an insinuation; to make a display of affection (for each other); to show off a relationship

3

feel sick; feel unwell

2

relief; peace of mind

10

vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude

3

to insult; to say something insulting about; to bad-mouth

6

spoilt child

1

(one's) older brother; lad; sonny

3

to pamper; to spoil

6