to grumble; to gripe; to complain
shameful; disgraceful; unsightly; indecent; unseemly; unbecoming
being in shape; holding a dignified appearance
receiving; getting; eating; drinking; please (give me; do for me)
to complain about; to grumble about; to moan about; to bemoan
Bon holidays (in mid-August); Bon holiday period
to wear (multiple layers of clothes); to wear underneath; to dress up (esp. in formal clothes); to attire oneself (in); to break in (through repeated wearing); to wear in
hickey; hickie; love bite; kiss mark; lipstick mark
to get late; to advance; to wear on
please; kindly; I beg of you; by all means; without fail
permanent; everlasting; lasting; very long; many years of
talking in delirium; delirious talk; delirious utterances; nonsense; rubbish; silly talk
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
to make someone cry; to move someone to tears; to grieve
you're lying; yeah, right; liar; fibber
workload; quantity of work; work rate; units produced
unexpectedly; surprisingly
strong reaction (against); (transplant) rejection
to be vague; to speak ambiguously; to be evasive; to not commit oneself
to know personally; to have personal knowledge of
vote of censure; vote of no confidence
name (esp. on a deed, contract, work, etc.); formal name; moral duty; justification; pretext
stock; share; stump; (clump of) roots; plant with attached roots or stem; strain (of bacteria, etc.); stock company
biggest shareholder; largest stockholder
president and chief executive officer
to be slow; to not make progress; to be inefficient
landline telephone; fixed-line telephone
manner (with others); attitude
representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world
polite; courteous; careful; close; overly courteous; overly careful
expulsion; ousting; ejection; dismissal; banishment
provocative; incendiary; inflammatory; suggestive; lascivious; risqué
to knock (someone) down; to floor; to beat up; to deal a devastating blow (from which one cannot recover); to devastate (emotionally); to crush
faint; indistinct; dim; vague; subtle; delicate
to avert one's eyes; to avoid looking straight at something; to cover one's eyes
not knowing what to do with oneself (out of embarrassment, etc.); not knowing where to put oneself; feeling out of place; feeling that one doesn't belong
all over; everywhere; in every nook and cranny; brightly; clearly
eccentric; queer; unconventional; peculiar; bizarre; strange
to obey; to submit to; to serve (in the army, a prison sentence, etc.); to go into (mourning); to observe; to take (medicine, poison, etc.)
to bow one's head; to hang one's head; to droop (e.g. ears of grain)
acquired (e.g. characteristic); learned (e.g. behaviour); a posteriori
contrast; juxtaposition; comparison; correlation (of strata)