teaching your grandmother to suck eggs; teaching something to someone who knows more than you; preaching to the choir; (lit.) lecturing to the Buddha
(very) patient; persevering
test of patience; battle of wills; endurance contest
deadlock; standstill; stalemate; impasse; standoff
to jump up; to spring up; to jump (market, price, etc.); to rise sharply; to act rashly; to jump the gun
ruler's orders; master's orders
(nearly certain) death; extremely dangerous place (or situation) from which one might not return alive; proper place to die; dilemma; predicament
shoe rack (at an entrance); shoe cupboard; shoe cubby
absconding; making off; taking off; slipping away; vanishing; disappearing
smallest (in size, degree, etc.); least; minimum; minimal
offset; offsetting each other; set-off; setoff; killing each other
head; brains; intelligence
to lose one's temper; to lose patience; to have enough; to be exasperated; to become irritated; to get fed up
secret savings; secret stash; money hidden away
the point of ...; the place where ...; a place called ...; places known as ...; I would say ...; ... is how I'd put it
to coat a surface with something that adheres strongly when hardened (i.e. grout, plaster, lacquer); to cover up (e.g. truth); to varnish (e.g. with lies, rumors)
football juggling; soccer ball juggling; lifting (in a rugby line-out); (breast) lifting surgery
trembling (with fear, anger, etc.); shivering (with cold); shaking; quivering
dangling; swaying; (walking) leisurely; aimlessly; idly; lazily
loyalty; sincerity; allegiance; fidelity; integrity
curiosity-seeking; bizarre (crime, etc.); grotesque; abnormal
gentlemen; men; the men's (sign on toilet, bathroom, etc. doors)
increase in production; production increase
eardrum; tympanic membrane
sound wave; acoustic wave
whoosh (of something suddenly spreading, billowing, swelling, or gushing outward); fwoosh; (bursting) into tears; suddenly (crying)
(period of) a year; during the era (of)
to be resurrected; to be resuscitated; to be rehabilitated; to be recalled (e.g. memories); to be brought back
to force one's way through
ancestor; forefather; foremother
to devour; to bite to death
argument; discussion; theory (e.g. of evolution); doctrine; essay; treatise
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
nail (e.g. fingernail, toenail); claw; plectrum; pick; hook; clasp
atomic reactor; nuclear reactor
up through; up until; down to; from ... to ... (e.g. from head to toe); everything from ... to ...
to become misty; to become hazy; to get blurry; to grow dim; to be overshadowed; to be upstaged
five (long cylindrical things)
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
one clap; one beat; one mora (taken as a unit of time)