palm (of one's hand); skill; (in one's) grip; (under one's) control; one's (concealed) intentions; one's cards
preparedness; readiness; mental attitude; frame of mind
one (thing); one piece; one item
to slam into; to crash into; to run into; to face (trouble, difficulties, etc.); to confront
finishing blow; coup de grâce
makeshift; stopgap; temporary expedient; temporary solution; band-aid
to break; to break down; to be crazy; to be nuts; to be infatuated (with); to be crazy (about)
physical labor; physical labour; manual work; drastic move (e.g. hold or strike in martial arts); power technique; display of power
mastery; skillfulness; dexterity; master hand; expert
tearjerker; sob story; maudlin tale
cheap; inexpensive; calm; peaceful; quiet
sentiment; sentimentality
to say; to spatter; to prate; to prattle; to babble
disadvantageous; long (odds)
deflagration; knocking (e.g. in car engines)
Herculean task; next-to-impossible undertaking
(relative) merits; superiority or inferiority; quality
consequence; result; conclusion; apodosis
to surrender; to give in; to yield; to submit; (lit.) to bend one's knee
the four cardinal directions; north, east, south and west; surroundings; many countries; the whole world; all around; here and there
blockade; lockdown; sealing off (an area); freezing (funds)
to carry in one's hand; to carry with one; to have on one's person; to take along (someone); to take (someone) with one; to be accompanied by
disabling; invalidation; nullification; vitiation
to wedge one's way in; to push in (between); to step in (between); to interrupt (a conversation, quarrel, etc.); to intervene
playing at (something); game of make-believe; something done together
unless one ...; if one does not ...
after-treatment; post-treatment; post-processing; dealing with the aftermath
life or death struggle; mortal combat; struggle to the death
apron of a gun; cover for the touch-hole on a cannon or matchlock
to dart away; to dart off; to gallop away
to kill one's enemy (opponent)