iron plate; steel plate; sure thing; certain winner
I'm sorry to have kept you waiting
to mix; to stir; to blend
accommodation facility (e.g. hotel); lodging facility; boarding house
schedule; program; programme; agenda
to contact; to get in touch with; to check in (with)
selling out; being sold out
to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase
outsider; layman; amateur
notice; notification; permission; consent; rejection; refusal
(after) bouncing around from one place to the next
to rescue (someone); to save; to help (out of a difficulty); to save (spiritually); to redeem (from sin); to deliver (from suffering, distress, etc.)
attention; giving one's attention; focusing
farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing; leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation
to play accompaniment; to keep time; to cheer; to applaud; to jeer; to mock
high and low speed; fast and slow; lenience and severity; emergency; crisis
to soften; to calm down; to be eased; to be mitigated; to subside; to abate
mimicry; mimesis; camouflage
wood; lumber; (raw) material; stuff; talent; ability
increase in population; population growth
earnings; proceeds; returns; revenue
and (so); (and) then; because of which; in addition to that
famous product; special product; speciality; specialty
point worthy of note; good point; part worth seeing; (signs of) promise; good prospects (for the future)
tourist attraction; sight-seeing area
death; rejection (of a manuscript, etc.); lacking; without
development; revitalization; standing (something) up; waking up; tilling a rice field; drawing a card from the draw pile
being particular (about); being fussy; being picky; being choosy; being fastidious
feature of the season; something characteristic of a particular season; poem about natural scenery or a particular season
to work out (a mine); to exhaust (vein of ore)
to be at one's wits' end; to be cornered; to be in a fix; to be in a desperate situation; to be in a pinch; to be in a predicament
participants; participating athletes
measurement; size; extent; plan; intention; arrangement
vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Scaphium affine)
any and every thing; altogether; lock, stock, and barrel; the whole shooting match; the whole kit and caboodle; without reserve
(in the same way) as before; as always
from here; from this place