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business card

3

to pull up; to drag up; to increase; to raise (e.g. taxes); to withdraw; to leave; to promote (someone to a higher position)

3

talking in delirium; delirious talk; delirious utterances; nonsense; rubbish; silly talk

1

future; prospects; outlook; journey ahead; distance yet to cover

3

to gasp; to pant; to breathe hard; to suffer; to struggle

2

ordinary; nothing special; nothing to exclaim over

1

golden child; promising young talent; (lit.) gold egg; golden egg; gold mine; cash cow

1

tedious; boring; being fed up with

2

old wound; scar; unpleasant past experience; painful memory; past misdeed

2

confrontation; to face; to confront; to encounter

1

there is no need to ...; never happens; there is never a time when

1

prediction; estimation

1

(not) at all; (not) a bit; (not) in the least; (not) in the slightest

2

along the road; along the way

1

to be harboured (of negative feelings or thoughts); to be rooted in one's mind; to coil; to curl around; to become tangled (e.g. of roots)

1

profound; deep; grave; solid; dignified; stately

1

office

4

head (of an office, laboratory, etc.); chief

1

clerk; office worker; office staff

1

neat (neatly); tidy; trim

1

pale pink; peach-colored

1

clean; hygienic; sanitary; pure; virtuous; immaculate

1

striped pattern

2

having a crisp appearance; stiffly; tensely; smartly (e.g. dressed); neatly

2

chair; seat; stool; post; position; seat

15

to recommend (someone to do); to advise; to recommend (a book, someone for a position, etc.); to suggest; to offer (a drink, cigarette, seat, etc.)

2

reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight

1

to be separated; to be apart; to leave; to go away; to leave (a job, etc.); to quit

9

to call (someone) to come; to call for; to summon; to always call (someone by a name); to become used to calling

1

to shout at

1

tolerant; generous; lenient; broad-minded; magnanimous

3

meaning; called; said

2

customer; client; patron

1

calling (someone a thief, coward, etc.); branding (as); denouncing

2

to remain; to stay (somewhere)

3

settlement; solution; resolution

5

together (of two people); both (of you, them, etc.)

1

perpetual motion

1

or something; or something like that; or words to that effect; something or other

1

Don Quixote (book, titular character); Don Quijote (discount chain store)

1

surplus; margin; leeway; composure; placidity; complacency

2

disorderly; messy; absurd; unreasonable; very; extremely

1

to go to see; to visit

1

direction; orientation; bearing; course (e.g. of action)

2

grandfather; male senior-citizen

2

to do what one is told to (esp. of a child); to take someone's advice; to listen to what someone says; to do what one wants something (one's body, legs, etc.) to do; to work as expected (e.g. of a machine); to obey (one)

1

it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it

3

selling price

1

double; twice (as much); twofold

1

the end of the line; the end of the road; curtains

1