guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
cake served with tea; teacake
to have a time-limit expire; to pass a deadline; to pass an expiration date
tactician; schemer; intriguer; resourceful person
to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase
expenses; expenditure; outgoings; outlays; costs
another thing; exception; special case
to treat (someone) to (something); to give (someone) a treat; to be extravagant; to live in luxury; to be proud; to be haughty
to say; to be pleased to say
hair style; coiffure; hairdo
to decorate gaudily; to overdecorate; to deck out; to embellish
desire for improvement (in social standing, etc.); ambition to rise in the world
(your) judgment; discernment
to make oneself available (free)
to mistake (for something or someone else); to be unable to recognize
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat; home page (of a website)
joke; pun; jest; smartly dressed; stylish; fashion-conscious
man's looks; handsomeness; good-lookingness
cold (attitude); indifferent; unsympathetic; aloof
to collude (with); to conspire (with); to make friends with; to get along well with; to become intimate (with opposite sex); to establish a secret liaison (with)
feigned ignorance; pretending not to know
to take for granted; to assume; to pretend (to be); to pose (as); to go through with (what one decided to do); to persist in doing
state; condition; the way things should be; ideal state; truth
sooner or later; in time; eventually
to make an appearance; to show up
to crowd out; to push out; to start together; to set out en masse; to highlight; to draw attention to
isolated; standing alone; falling in drops (e.g. rain); saying a single word; muttering just a few words
to fight against; to oppose; to face
lesson; precept; teachings; moral
to complete decisively; to do to completion
to be no match for; to not hold a candle to
to get to the heart (of the matter); to come to the main point
elucidation; explication; explaining; unravelling; clarification; understanding
to hit the mark; to hit the nail on the head
upper stream; upper course; upstream; upper classes
to resume breathing; to come around; to come back to life
uncalled-for remark; impertinent remark
being excluded; being ignored; being kept in the dark (about); being kept out of the loop; (lit.) outside the mosquito net
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with