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cheating each other

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whole area; entire region

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to be identified

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private management

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opportunism; waiting and seeing (how the wind blows); sitting on the fence; straddling

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power of the state; government authority

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inversion; opposition; conflicting; repulsion; contradiction

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to lose (a chance); to miss (a chance); to overlook; to omit; to deviate; to depart from (the norm, etc.)

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mine (ours) for the taking; something under one's full control

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every month; monthly; month by month

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storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery; story

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between-season wear; spring and autumn clothing; together; condition; situation; -ish

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to bewitch; to confuse; to enchant; to delude

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stepladder; steps

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not yet fixed; undecided; pending

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censorship; inspection; examination

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to be on the lookout; to lie in wait

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mechanism; mechanical parts; jack-in-the-box

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favour; favor

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tsk tsk; oh-oh; huh; what's that?

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paddy field; farm

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major cleanup; spring cleaning

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edge of blade

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three days

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to read and understand; to subject to close analysis; to read deeply; to decipher; to decode

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wheedling child; spoiled child (spoilt); pampered child; child who always demands attention

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interest; rights; concession

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to shelter (e.g. a fugitive); to harbour; to harbor; to hide; to give refuge to

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unarmed; without weapons

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all out; like hell; like crazy; desperately; (lit.) expecting to die

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muzzling (a person); preventing (a person) from revealing something; silencing (a person); murdering (a person) to prevent them from revealing something

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evening; night; nighttime

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surrender (to the authorities); giving oneself up; turning oneself in

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one year ago

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minute; fine; delicate; accurate; precise; elaborate

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patient's condition; pathology

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to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up

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eyewitness report; eyewitness information

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physiological; physical; visceral; instinctive; in one's guts

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break in the deadlock

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being overheard; being leaked (e.g. secrets); going in one ear and out the other

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the trouble is that ...; the problem is that ...; unfortunately; annoyingly

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child rearing; child raising; raising children; parenting

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to select; to choose; to diagnose (an illness); to judge; to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); to see someone off

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disposition; temperament; temper; nature

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to shut one's eyes; to ignore; to pretend not to know; to die

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way to die; means of dying; quality of one's death

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to outwit; to outmanoeuvre; to steal a march on; to get the jump on; to anticipate; to forestall

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what I want to say is ...; the fact of the matter is ...; none other than ...

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advantages and disadvantages; interests (of parties)

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