unattractive person; coward; weakling
magazine; journal; periodical
failure (i.e. an unsuccessful work); flop; dud; bomb
attractive; good-looking; stylish; cool
collaboration; joint work
tending a store; salesperson; sales clerk; shop assistant
collecting mania; mania for collecting; collectionism
contrary to one's expectations
selling out; being sold out
older sister; lass; young lady
overflowing; effusive; exuberant; bountiful
heavily laden (of a branch); sagging; drooping; bent low
trial manufacture; experiment; test piece; prototype
big hit (with); great success; great reception; great popularity; catching on greatly
too large (clothing); baggy; bulging; warping; parp; toot
discouraged; dispirited; despondent
occasional; infrequent; rare
to drain; to flow (unobstructed); to sell well; to be in good demand; to exit the stage; to remove (a prop) from the stage
plentiful; lot of; much; pile of
in groups of twos and threes; in small groups; (lit.) (in groups of) threes and fives
for one person; made for one person
to get lost; to become lost; to go astray
(pieces of metal, etc. hitting each other) noisily; cluttered; disordered; messy
to rub against; to chafe; to quarrel; to jostle (with)
to roof (a house with some material); to thatch; to shingle; to tile
indolence; laziness; sloth
to be expensive; to be costly
beating (inflicted as punishment); mob violence; mob justice
both; together; jointly; simultaneously
a wise man keeps away from danger
catercorner; diagonally opposite
public expense; public funds; public money; public expenditure
main street (as opposed to a side street); high street
fall; crash (of an aircraft)
head over heels; headlong; head first
eye measurement; measure with eye
inside (a region, area, etc.); within the range (of); within the sphere (of influence, etc.)
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter