noble; lofty; high-minded; virtuous; upright
first day (e.g. at work, school); day one
not straightforward; not dealt with by ordinary means; very hard to manage
intake (e.g. of salt); ingestion; absorption (e.g. of new knowledge); adoption (e.g. of foreign culture); reception and protection
last night; yesterday evening
throughput; processing power
what's what; heads or tails
target (e.g. of a marketing campaign); subject (of a survey, investigation, etc.); intended audience; eligible person; person entitled (to); recipient
conceit; hubris; vanity; presumption
without; but if; otherwise; or else
weight; weight (e.g. of someone's words); burden; importance; significance
bond (between people); (emotional) ties; bonds; tether; fetters
one-by-one; separately; in detail
pointing and calling (occupational safety method)
to relate to; to have one's feelings understood
(matter) for congratulations; worthy of celebration; happy (occasion, ending, etc.); naive; too good-natured; gullible
to have a limit; to go too far (e.g. of a joke)
single; solo; solitary; just one; only one
loop; band; loop (in a program); looping (of a video, slideshow, etc.); repeating (e.g. of a conversation); time loop (in fiction); temporal loop
to begin (doing); to start (doing)
bog; marsh; swamp; quandary; dire situation from which one cannot extricate oneself; imbroglio
to be on the verge of; to be about to; to be on the point of
preface; introduction; preamble
to happen to meet; to come across; to run into; to bump into
to flare up; to fly into a rage
to collect (debts); to dun; to appoint; to promote; to emphasize; to focus on
early evening (usu. from 3pm to 6pm); dusk
to begin to walk; to set out
(breaking) with a snap (of a thread, rope, etc.); (stopping) suddenly (of communications, a practice, etc.); abruptly; completely
to become dim; to become blurred
to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake
all the way ... (to this remote place); as far as ...
to project; to stand out; to jut out; to go somewhere (e.g. for work); to proceed to; to leave for
to put a stop to; to put a hold on; to put the brakes on; to call a halt to; to block; to shelve
everything turning out fine; the whole thing being settled
(in) the middle of; (in) the midst of; (in) the course of; (at) the height of
to sleep all day; to idle away one's time; to loaf all day
plan; scheme; plot; design; project; intention
starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); clearing an abacus
face; mug; surface; cheek meat; (arch.) cheek; (arch.) cheeks
to go to the bottom of an affair; to inquire into the origin
to do (someone) a wrong; to do (someone) an ill turn; to take revenge; to resent; to bear a grudge