loss; damage; harm; disadvantage; handicap; drawback
to benefit; to profit; to gain; to reap rewards
to be forward; to be impertinent
(one) could even say that
caller; visitor; company; guest
to get down to business; to cut to the chase; to get straight to the point; to move on to the main subject
meaning; connotation; denotation
to urge; to encourage; to press; to stimulate (e.g. growth); to hasten (e.g. development); to quicken
joint ownership; co-ownership; sharing (e.g. a viewpoint); sharing (files, devices on a network, posts on social media, etc.)
medley (of food, songs, etc.); (snow or sand) drift
sound of the wind; voice of the wind
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; clumsy; unskilled
utterly (unknown; esp. of someone's whereabouts); completely; (no information) whatsoever; at all
to straighten up one's back (e.g. stand up straight, sit up straight); to hold one's head high
scorn; disdain; contempt; slight
soul; spirit; departed soul; ghost
war situation; progress of a battle
the three character styles: square and semicursive and grass
the whole body; the five styles of writing Chinese characters; the five parts of the body (head, two hands and two feet; or head, neck, chest, hands and feet)
product; produce; result; fruit
to be ruined (reduced to poverty); to fall low; to go under; to come to ruin
self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself
to handle (a thing) roughly
heathen; heretic; pagan; nonconformist; freethinker; iconoclast
sneer; derision; scornful laugh; cold smile
to draw (conclusion); to deduce; to derive
one of these days; someday; one day
absolutely; unconditionally; never (with neg. verb)
to miss (doing); to fail (to do)
useless resistance; vain struggle
fellow traveler; fellow traveller; travelling companion; taking someone along unwillingly (e.g. in death); forcing to take part
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
to hunt (animals); to search (for a criminal); to go looking for (flowers, etc.); to gather (mushrooms)
to be of no concern to one; to be nothing to do with one