getting poised again for charging; toeing the mark again; starting again; getting a fresh start; going back to square one
half and half; fifty-fifty
intellectual power; mental capacity; intellect; intelligence; brains
to use someone's (argument, attack) against them; to use (an attack) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a negative situation)
careless; thoughtless; stupid; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent
to attack; to go for; to come at; to pounce on; to jump on; to swoop down on
meticulous; careful; discreet; scrupulous; prudent
to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was
to bury; to inter; to entomb; to cover up; to hush up; to shelve
not insignificant; not to be sneezed at
to accomplish; to achieve; to complete; to carry out; to carry through
cover; covering; covering (a song); cover; coverage; to cover (a loss)
physical strength; muscular strength
compensation; reparation; price (of achieving a goal); cost; paying compensation on someone's behalf; compensation
deterioration (in quality, performance, etc.); degradation; worsening; (visible) aging; becoming unattractive (due to aging)
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to anticipate; to foresee
fighting spirit; (will to) fight
to be extremely difficult; to present a major challenge
superficial; half-hearted; shallow
to launch oneself upon; to make one's debut
(school) period; period or division of time; time limit
performance (as opposed to practice); going before an audience or on-air; game; match; high of the season; height (of summer, etc.)
to abate; to weaken; to be emaciated; to be dejected; to be perplexed
whether one likes it or not; whether willing or not; willy-nilly
to roll up; to be rolled up
to concern; to be related
incomprehensible; mysterious; inexplicable; inscrutable; enigmatic; baffling
to amass; to accumulate; to store; to leave unpaid
drainage; draining; pumping out (water); displacement
accelerated; accelerating; gathering speed; exponentially increasing
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope); to become less tense; to relax; to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax; to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression)
delay; lag; falling behind; falling behind in; lagging behind in
sensation; feeling; tendency; propensity
to have one's breath taken away; to gasp (in surprise, wonder, etc.); to have one's breath catch in one's throat; to gulp
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; hammy (acting); over-the-top; clumsy
visual hallucination; vision