to miss a big chance; to miss a good opportunity; to let one's enemy slip away
maternity leave; paternity leave
running one's own business; doing business on one's own; self-employment
natural number; nonnegative integer
Arabian Nights; One Thousand and One Nights
congeries of many households; scratch (combined) team; hodge podge of parties
language area of the cortex; speech centre (center)
thoughts; opinion; however much money you wish to give (as alms, a fee at a museum, etc.); fondness (for a significant other, etc.; often used teasingly); love
being covered with water (i.e. in a flood); being submerged; being inundated; flooding
sandpiper (any bird of family Scolopacidae, incl. the curlews, godwits, phalaropes, redshanks, ruff, snipes, turnstones, and woodcocks)
ship's nationality; ship's country of registration
antiques business; curio dealer; secondhand dealer
while alive (e.g. I won't allow ... while I'm alive); as long as one lives
producer's price; PP; polypropylene; PP
source (e.g. quotation); authority
net auction; Internet auction; online auction; web auction
axiom; maxim; self-evident truth