grown-up (manner, etc.); mature; adult
crackling; cracking; clapping; incessantly (blinking)
voice; speech; sound of a voice; sound (e.g. of a TV)
intonation; accent; modulation; inflection
(on the) net; (on the) Internet; (on the) Web
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them
site (usu. website); sight; payable on sight
advertisement; advertising; announcement; notice
intention; wish; purpose; mind (to do)
having a headache; racking one's brains; troubling over something
fear; dread; dismay; terror; horror; scare
natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder
no matter what it takes; by any means necessary; at all costs; by hook or by crook
to send to; to deliver; to escort (a person) home
to have tears in one's eyes; to be moved to tears
decision; determination; resolution
(one's) gaze; direction in which one is looking; point of view; standpoint; line covering someone's eyes (in an edited photograph)
of uncertain meaning; ambiguous; cryptic; nonsensical; incomprehensible; perplexing
to pay no attention to (while listening); to take no notice of; to ignore; to let go in one ear and out the other
what with this and that; for a number of reasons
(in) the middle of; (in) the midst of; (in) the course of; (at) the height of
apart from that; other than that; leaving that aside; more importantly; more ... than that; but
receiving; reception; eating; drinking; please; please do for me
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
you (people); gentlemen; ladies and gentlemen; my friends
unprecedented; unheard-of; record-breaking
crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
to be on the verge of; to be about to; to be on the point of
far away; far off; far; long ago; long before
exaggerated; overblown; pretentious
matter of time; question of time
good-for-nothing; spineless; gutless; spiritless; feckless; pluckless
reinforcement (e.g. of troops)
please; somehow or other; one way or another
together; jointly; at the same time; with; both
to take someone's life; to kill someone
iron hammer; (fig.) crushing blow
to cheer up; to be encouraged (by); to be in high spirits
(social) class; rank; grade
heathen; heretic; pagan; nonconformist; freethinker; iconoclast