easy money; easy gain; making a killing
stoppage time; injury time; added time; lost time; wasted time
to talk on and on; to talk one's head off
to drag down; to pull down; to force out (of power, office, role, etc.)
negligence; carelessness; incompetence; mismanagement
(passenger) fare; freight rates; shipping expenses
pencil case; pencil box; writing brush case
ripening (of a crop); crop; harvest
to snatch; to grab; to steal; to charge (an exorbitant price) for
to satisfy one's appetite
trade; buying and selling
blood relationship; blood relations; being genetically related
to scorn; to despise; to hold in contempt; to look down on; to disdain
greed; worldly or materialistic desires
very hungry; starving; ravenous
whitewashing; glossing over; lip service; deftly finishing up; putting on the final touches
percussion hammer; firing hammer; cocking piece
side job (outside of one's main employment); side gig; part job (carried out at home); home industry; (secretly) working on something unrelated to the class (or conference, etc.) one is attending
older brother; elder brother; brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship); young man; buddy
child; offspring; issue; sperm; (one's) seed
not entirely wrong but not entirely right; so-so; average
son (of others); boy; young master; green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world
point in question (at issue)
to abuse (verbally); to curse at; to shout abuse at; to speak ill of
son of a distinguished family; son of a noble
punishment; penalty; penal regulations; penal code
dissolute; dissipated; licentious; slovenly; untidy; messy
to be foolish; to be stupid; to be ridiculous
lawfulness; propriety; reasonableness; appropriateness; legality; legitimacy
wildly enthusiastic; crazy (about something)
to invest in; to sink money into; to put into; to lay out (funds); to inject; to impregnate
motive power; driving force
trouble; quarrel; difficulties; complication; tangle