jpdb beta

to raise (esp. overhead); to brandish (e.g. sword); to flourish; to wield (e.g. power, authority); to proclaim one's principles

2

to make out to be; to set someone up (as); to prepare (e.g. someone for a role); to make (e.g. "a man out of him"); to frame

2

to overwhelm (e.g. an opponent); to overpower; to overwhelm (someone with emotion); to move; to intimidate; to frighten

2

-less; lacking; non-existing

1

to rant and rave; to raise hell

1

of bad character; ill-natured; nasty; vicious; wicked; malignant

6

wicked person; evil person; bad child; naughty child; bad thing; mischief

1

right and wrong; good and evil

1

useless; vain; aimless; idle

1

to press down; to hold down; to pin down; to suppress (feelings, disorder, opposition, etc.); to repress

1

to plunder; to grab; to snatch

3

logical connection; chain of reasoning; coherence; blood vessel

1

superficial; half-hearted; shallow

2

there is no need to ...; it should hardly be necessary to ...

2

to lift (with a crane, ropes, etc.); to raise; to hoist; to manipulate (a price) upward; to (artificially) raise; to push up

6

to happen to have; to have on hand; to carry (e.g. money)

6

to pinch and crush; to pinch out

1

to bring back

3

to look at each other; to exchange looks; to correspond (to); to be proportionate (to); to be in keeping with

2

good-for-nothing; useless; worthless

2

to decrease (in size or number); to diminish; to abate

12

courting; wooing; making advances

1

large-scale

12

keep up your strength; chin up!

2

changing for the better

1

feeling (much) obliged; being (very) grateful; feeling sorry (for troubling someone); feeling ashamed (e.g. of an error); (arch.) shrinking back in fear

1

make one wrong move and ...; take one wrong step and ...

1

wise saying; famous saying; witty remark

2

enough about ...

1

superman; superwoman; Ubermensch (Nietzsche's ideal man of the future); overman

1

smoke; fumes

5

tuft of hair under the temple; sideburns; sidelocks

1

rolling over; turning over; turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); producing a positive from a negative; producing a negative from a positive

1

force field

1

core meltdown; meltdown; nuclear reactor core meltdown

1

meltdown

1

fixed date; appointed date; set date; deadline; due date

3

when push comes to shove; when needed; when necessity arises; when the moment arrives

1

likely loss; probable defeat

1

surely; certainly

1

patterns of thinking; train of thought

3

to be imminent; to be impending; to be pressing; to be urgent

1

critical

2

humming; crooning

2

secrecy; confidentiality; one's circumstances (esp. fiscal); kitchen

3

shrieking; squealing; screeching; chattering (e.g. of a monkey); chittering

2

dirty joke; blue joke; indecent topic; bawdy subject; sex talk

4

godsend; lifesaver; timely offer; windfall

2

to cool down one's anger

2

to bring (someone into a place); to lead into

1