celebrated personage; big-wig; person in a high position
taking something into consideration; making allowances; discounting
as many as one likes; as much as one likes; great many; plenty; almost (none); (not) much
correction; revision; amendment
appropriate; suitable; fitting; apt; proper; right
stark naked; completely naked; nude
if; in case; supposing; worst (case); unexpected (occurence); unforeseen
to expose (to the sun, public, danger, etc.); to bleach; to refine; to rinse (vegetables); to soak; to doxx
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
likely to do; liable to do; (quite) capable of doing; may (well) do; might do; could do
to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with
killing time; staving off boredom
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
front and rear; before and after; order; sequence; consequences; context
fixed date; appointed date; set date; deadline; due date
vertex; apex; top (e.g. of a mountain); summit; top (of a profession, field, etc.); summit
to precede; to forestall; to anticipate
to sift out; to screen or eliminate (candidates)
opening (a letter, parcel, etc.); breaking the seal; unboxing (a product); unsealed mail
selection; sorting; culling; screening; triage
news; tidings; information; correspondence; letter
bottom of one's heart; depths of one's mind; innermost thoughts; from the bottom of one's heart; wholeheartedly; truly
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
with a whack; with a smack; (answering a question) directly; definitively
beforehand; in advance; ahead of time; previously
dimly; faintly; with a faint light; warmly; friendly; in a heartwarming manner
complete change; about-face
binder; clipboard; binding machine (wheat, etc.); binder
removal (of a building, equipment, etc.); dismantling (e.g. a tent); striking (a stage set, camp, etc.); withdrawal (of troops); pulling out; evacuation
throng; gathering of people
to have one's hands slip (and drop something)
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
a little; for a moment; a short while; just a minute
(blue-collar) worker; laborer; labourer
echo; reverberation; response; reaction; repercussions
whole nation; whole land; whole country
blank form; sheets of paper; sheet of paper
to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow); to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause); to invest; to put in; to administer (medicine); to give
inverted; upside down; reversed; back to front; wrong way round
to slope; to descend; to slide (snow, etc.)