jpdb beta

inexperienced person; novice; greenhorn; green hand

1

higher rank; better position

1

puzzled; perplexed; quizzical; dubious; suspicious

1

relative; relation; kin

1

to count on; to expect; to put confidence in; to trust in; to depend on

2

one's own strength and skill alone (without money, connections, etc); nothing to rely on but oneself; (being) self-made

1

pinch; tough spot; bind; clothespin; clothes peg

3

crossing swords; competing against; contending with; fighting against

1

not necessarily so; is not always true; there is no guarantee that ...; there is no telling

1

gaining time; stalling for time; time-buying

2

adjoining each other; next to each other; being in close proximity to something; being constantly exposed to (danger, etc.)

1

privilege; special right

1

to fix; to settle; to standardize; constant; definite; uniform

1

even if not; even without

2

salary; pay; medical care; treatment; advance preparation

2

paying; remunerative; advantageous; profitable

1

to have a catch; to have an ulterior motive; to be more (to something)

2

guard; protector; defensive armament; personal armor (armour)

1

angry voice; one's voice when shouting with anger

2

to duck one's head; to pull in one's head; to duck down; to shrug one's shoulders

1

change; alternation; rotation; replacement; substitution; shift

2

this and that; this or that; one thing or another; this way and that

3

to shake; to jolt; to rock (cradle); to blackmail; to extort; to shake down

1

to wake up; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to become enlightened

1

to go to bed; to go to sleep; to fall asleep; to be laid up (with a cold); to be ill in bed

1

camp; camping

1

to awaken; to arouse from sleep; to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of); to sober up

2

you could say; you might say; verging on the

1

mountain road; mountain trail

4

rugged; scraggy; angular; gnarled

2

each (person); everyone; individual; respective

4

division of work; sharing out the work; splitting into groups (e.g. to search for someone); separating into parties

2

putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the means for the end; getting one's priorities backwards

1

to climb; to clamber (over, up); to scramble (up); to scale; to claw one's way up

2

outside the scope (of); exempt (from); ineligible (for); not covered (by)

1

field of vision; view; one's outlook (e.g. on life); one's horizons

1

inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care

1

to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.); to take (a measure, course of action, etc.); to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample); to assume (an attitude)

2

heaven and earth; the universe; land; world; top and bottom; gods of heaven and earth

2

reversal (of a situation); turnaround; turnabout; reversal (of direction of rotation)

1

right behind; just behind; directly behind

1

inverted; upside down; reversed; back to front; wrong way round

1

reptiles

1

oblong; vertical writing style (e.g. on envelopes); portrait orientation

1

to turn round; to face about; to turn about

2

to spring at; to leap upon; to swoop down on; to throw oneself upon (e.g. an enemy)

3

cartwheel

1

to throw at; to fling at; to hurl at; to hurl (abuse, insults, etc.) at; to use (rough language) with (someone)

7

hardness

1

underhand grip (e.g. in gymnastics, etc.); cross-handed grip (e.g. in golf, etc.); using one's hands backwards from their conventional positioning; reverse grip (e.g. of a sword); turning the tables (on an opponent); reverse arm-lock (in judo); joint lock

1