wild oat (Avena fatua); wild oats; oat (Avena sativa); oats
to be able to handle strain (overexertion, inconvenience, etc.)
parsonage; rectory; vicarage
Anne of Green Gables (novel by L. M. Montgomery)
piece; fragment; one (object)
deeply (stab, thrust, etc.); hard
to rest; to relax; to repose
Good heavens!; Oh my god!; gee whiz
to make oneself popular without any regard to others; to take all the credit to oneself; (lit.) to turn out well (of a child)
Shirley; Charrie; Sherley
to jump up and down; to hop
each time; every time; whenever (something happens); on the occasion of
cannot be helped; unavoidable; pointless; useless; hopeless (person); annoying
to get on well (with a person); (lit.) to be a good match with one's horse (e.g. of a rider)
fashion; fad; vogue; prevalence (e.g. of a disease)
difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse
hairy caterpillar; woolly bear; pest; nudnik (nudnick)
for the present; for the time being
to put up with; to endure; to bear patiently
to lose one's temper; to throw a tantrum
to be stubborn; to be obstinate; to be perverse; to not give in
curl; curly hair; ringlet
to be full; to wax (e.g. moon); to rise (e.g. tide); to mature; to expire
flying; leaping; zero; naught; flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cypselurus agoo); running out of points (zero or fewer)
a day after the fair; (at a) stage when it's too late