to push down; to press down; to force down; to depress
main cause; primary factor
good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit
cheap; inexpensive; calm; peaceful; quiet
selling off; disposal by sale; sale
to often be the case; to occur frequently; to be common; to be popular
dying; death; dead; useless; damned
to say enough (as much as required); to say plenty; to say well; to say cleverly; to say often; to say frequently
sense of isolation; (feelings of) loneliness
fantastic; magical; wondrous; whimsical; fairytale-like; romantic
field; field; meadow; field (of interest, study, etc.); field; field (in a form, web page, etc.)
because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...
a long time ago; in those days
cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible
labor; labour; work; Labour Party
to put someone to work; to make someone work
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
novel; story; (work of) fiction
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
equal division (of profits, prize money, etc.); equal split
full stomach; filling one's stomach; eating one's fill; complete; total; full
until something reaches the very limit; until the very last minute; up to the breaking point
custom; common practice; habit
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
manager; controller; chief treasurer; boss (of a gambling den)
property; fortune; assets
joint establishment (esp. schools of different levels or different courses of study); establishment as an annex (e.g. of a school); juxtaposition; placing side by side
region; limits; stage; level
to reach; to get to; to arrive at
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
even though; despite; when
time; labour; payment (for labour); pay; tedious job; troublesome job
each place; every place; various places; all parts (of the country, world, etc.)
correction; rectification; mending; repair
something like ...; something called ...
none of your business; not your concern
many; numerous; various; large number of
forgetting; lapse of memory
closely (packed, lined up, etc.); tightly; densely; (work) sufficiently
passage (of time); elapsing; progress; development; transit
to overdo; to go too far; to go to excess
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)