fair attack; fair tactics; straightforward approach; standard procedure; established method
notable; important; chief; valuable; conspicuous; outstanding
to build a market for; to promote (a product); to promote oneself; to sell oneself; to sell heavily
sponsorship (i.e. conducting under one's auspices); promotion; organizing; organising; hosting; staging
process; procedure; sequence; protocol; instruction
to speed; to tear away; to skip over (e.g. pages)
coercion; overpowering; overawing; daunting
purpose; utility; objective; way to use something
to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge
division of work; sharing out the work; splitting into groups (e.g. to search for someone); separating into parties
to say (something) over one's shoulder
unpleasant; disgusting; loathsome; shameful; scandalous
to come to nothing; to be wasted; to fall through; to end without result
invoking the coercive power of the state; calling upon the power of the state
temporary; provisional; interim; special; extraordinary; extra
lucky; nice!; score!; bingo!
desperation; despair; self-abandonment
to appear ...; to look like ...; to seem ...; to have a trace of; to be tinged with
sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination
to scoop; to ladle out; to trip up (e.g. someone's legs)
to be sticky; to be stringy; to be glutinous
to pull (the puppet) strings; to direct things from behind the scenes; to stretch out (and keep going); to linger on
to scrape off; to rub off
sticky; gummy; gooey; tenacious; persistent; dogged
early morning; early hours; early in the morning
crushed flat; flattened; flat-chested girl; sound of a sticky rice cake sticking to something
number of cases, incidents, items, messages, accounts, etc.
to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of
love of; affection for; enthusiast for; being attractive to; being liked by
maid; helper; help; assistance
looking at someone (with upturned eyes); glancing upwards (at someone)
oh!; ah!; oh dear!; good grief!; dear me!; thank God!
without an occupation; unemployed; jobless
reputation; respectability; honour; honor
self-satisfaction; (self-)complacency; smugness
imposition (i.e. of rules, of a decision); compulsion
being good at conversation; good talker; conversationalist
to have a go; to try and do (something); to take a chance with something