to give off sparks; to spark; to scintillate; to have a heated argument; to combat; to do something fiercely
puncture; flat tyre (tire); blowout; bursting; overflowing; being jammed (e.g. phone lines)
wheel flying off its axle
sense of impending crisis; sense of danger
to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)
very improbable; vanishingly unlikely; only with a miracle
no skin off my nose; somebody else's problem; (lit.) fire on the opposite shore
show; exhibition; spectacle
to begin (doing); to start (doing)
to pitch forward; to fall forward
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
to blow off; to be blown off
by all rights; legally speaking; properly speaking
(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
to work on (someone); to appeal to; to make approaches to; to begin to work
incompletion; incomplete; unfinished
to take measures (in face of events being anticipated); to come to an agreement (in bargaining, etc.); to strike a bargain; to clap one's hands together
eggs; egg; (hen's) egg; (an expert) in the making; beginning; origin
to allow; to enable; to make possible; to make feasible; to permit
judgment; judgement; discernment
to overwhelm (e.g. an opponent); to overpower; to overwhelm (someone with emotion); to move; to intimidate; to frighten
attitude; posture; preparedness; readiness
to find out; to discover; to select; to pick out; to look out (from the inside); to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)
to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to
influenced (by); under an influence
resemblance; similarity; likeness; analogy
collision; crash; running into; conflict; quarrel; clashing
to defend against; to protect against; to prevent; to avert; to avoid
to be preeminent; to be outstanding
storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; storm (e.g. of protest)
to make good use of; to use to one's advantage
to be imminent; to loom; to be approaching; to be impending
to put on; to wear; to be clad in; to twine around; to twist around; to coil around