feature (e.g. newspaper); special edition; report
planning; project; plan; design
news coverage; collecting data (e.g. for an article); covering (something for media); interview
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
shrewd; astute; cunning; alert
work; operation; manufacturing; fatigue duty
to help; to assist; to aid; to contribute to; to be a factor in
to talk; to chat; to chatter
contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import
sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment
writing; composition; essay; sentence
drawing; diagram; plans; blueprint
cum (e.g. bedroom-cum-study); holding both roles (e.g. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs); and; in addition; concurrently; at the same time
pressure; stress; pressure (e.g. political); coercion; arm-twisting
dirty; filthy; disordered; messy; indecent (language, etc.); dirty
to grow up; to become an adult
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
mechanism; machinery; trick; dodge; mechanical doll; string puppet
being very busy; busyness
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master
to take (a resource, e.g. time or money); to hang; to come into view; to arrive; to come under (a contract, a tax); to start (engines, motors); to attend
loss (of something); disadvantage; mistake; error; flaw; defect
to crown; to cap; to prefix with; to start with; to begin with
and then; in addition to that; also; even so
meddling; meddlesomeness; nosiness; meddler; buttinsky; busybody
had better ...; had better not ...
being enthusiastic about; being wild about; being absorbed in; being engrossed in; being devoted to
brow; glabella; middle forehead; area between the eyebrows
awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained
goblin; apparition; monster; ghost; phantom; spectre
boy; juvenile; young boy; youth; lad
to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on
certain; sure; definite; reliable; sound; solid
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
indeed; really; truly; very much
chat-up line; pick-up line; (loving) words
decider; person who decides; deciding factor; clincher; trump card
the last moment; the very end