to ring; to sound; to be popular; to be esteemed; to state; to insist
one breath; time of one breath; pause; break; (doing in) one go; doing without stopping
to make a mistake; to be incorrect; to be mistaken
great; excellent; very troublesome; awful; tiring; tough
to appease one's thirst; to wet one's whistle
to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal
once; before; formerly; never yet; never before; first time
looking pale; looking unwell
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
to melt; to thaw; to fuse; to dissolve
knock; knocking; fungo hitting; hitting balls for fielding practice
to have a talk; to tell a story
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
menial; meanness; servility; abject
personnel affairs; human affairs; human resources; HR
power; authority; jurisdiction
treatment (of a person); dealing with
vocal sound; tone of voice
stereo (sound); stereo (player, set); stereo; stereophonic
to be stingy; to be tightfisted
when it comes to the cause; when you get right down to it; as for what started it; as for the reason; originally
wild uproar; pandemonium; clamor of voices; noisy; uproarious; clamorous
both people; two people; two directions; both directions
sparkle of one's eyes; insight; discernment; penetration
with a friendly grin; smilingly
unsightly; ugly; unseemly; indecent; deplorable; disgraceful
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; (arch.) entertaining someone as one's guest
to be entrusted with; to be asked to
to allow oneself to ...; to take the liberty of ...; it is presumed that; (I, we) presume that; on one's own accord; by one's arbitrary decision
(verbal) message; sending word; (arch.) excuse; (arch.) pretext
I got it; I see; I now know; So that's the reason
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
to serve; to work for; to attend
effect; result; worth; use; avail
outskirts; environs (of a city); surrounding area; surroundings