estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately
these days; nowadays; recently
how are things with you?; how are you doing?
taste; elegance; appearance; air; the likes of ...; lowly people such as ...
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
putting on a brave face; put-on cheeriness; pretending one is fine; show of courage; bravado; Dutch courage
to fire oneself up; to give it one's all; to get psyched; to fire someone up (with scolding, corporal punishment, etc.); to rouse
rotting; spoiling; decaying; rotten; worthless; paltry
to face the wrong way; to go in the wrong direction
speech; expression; wording; language
chilly; rather cold; somewhat cold
to pass by; to go past; to go to extremes; to overdo it; to go too far
viewing as a problem; problematizing
apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize
separate case; another matter; different matter; another project
to see; to look; to watch; to try to ...
obvious; (as) clear as day; plain to see
kickball; soccer baseball; football rounders
cheap, malt-free beer-like alcoholic beverage
ball game (e.g. baseball, tennis, soccer)
bat (in baseball, cricket, etc.)
hitting (a ball with a bat, racket, golf club, etc.); batting; batted ball; struck ball
first base; first baseman; one fort
defense; defence; fielding
change; changing; exchange (e.g. of goods); change of sides (in baseball, American football, etc.); switching ends (in tennis, volleyball, etc.)
ball not bouncing (e.g. in a catch)
rare; strange; odd; peculiar
to be popular; to come into fashion; to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to flourish; to thrive
with a bang bang (e.g. repeated sound of a hammer or gunfire); at a mad pace; with great vigor
fair; impartial; just; fairness; impartiality; justice
division; splitting; sharing; distribution; draw; tie