visit to console someone; giving comfort (to the sick, injured, etc.); expressing condolences (sympathy, concern, etc.); sympathy call
to be left without means of sustenance; to be turned adrift in the streets; to be rendered homeless; to be out in the cold; to be down and out
marrying to become a housewife; (lit.) permanent employment (once one becomes a housewife)
(cutting) with a single stroke; lopping off (branches, etc.); (cutting hair) short; drastically (slash a budget, etc.); resolutely; ruthlessly (discard, etc.)
facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue
help; rescue; salvation; solace; (religious) salvation; (Christian) grace
flapping; rattling (sound); noisily; commotion; kerfuffle
improper; immodest; disgraceful; shameful; vulgar; low
(formal) shirt; dress shirt; business shirt; button-up shirt
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
suspicious; dubious; unreliable; indecent; unseemly
to give rein to (imagination)
colouring; coloring; shade (of colour); flavour; nuance; feel
something like that; sort of like that; similar to that; in that vein
to steam (food, towel, etc.); to be hot and humid; to be sultry
sense of values; values; value system
civilian clothes; plain clothes; mufti; plainclothes police officer
plain; simple; reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.); modest; quite; a (little) bit
being together; going together; matching (clothing); going together
supply; provision; raising; procurement
old clothes; secondhand clothing
quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty
to lay in stock; to replenish stock; to procure; to learn; to find out; to take in
individual; distinctive; unique; characteristic; personal; idiosyncratic
second hand clothes shop; somebody who sells second hand clothes
(the) whole; as a whole; in general; at large
used article (esp. clothes)
to profit; to get; to have (bear, beget) a child; to have a stroke of luck
to pitch in and help; to give someone a hand
full of confidence; brimming with (self-)confidence; having great faith in oneself
break (rest); break (tennis, boxing, snooker, etc.); suddenly becoming popular; becoming a hit
to be profitable (business); to pay; to be in the black
limousine (stretched car); shuttle bus (usu. to airport)
pocket money; spending money; pin money; allowance
petty bourgeois; lower middle class
and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not