old wound; scar; old unpleasant incident; past misdeed
cramp; sprain; unreasonableness; absurdity; illogical; unreasonable
anguished; distressed; worried; horny
confrontation; opposition; antagonism
to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble
it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?
hard to get; hard to come by
handsome man; man's looks; good looks; manliness
to pull (the puppet) strings; to direct things from behind the scenes; to stretch out (and keep going); to linger on
to talk the night away; to talk all night
relaxed; familiar; easy to access; friendly
dismissal; firing; retirement; being relieved from one's post; being relieved of a burden
digestion (of food); digestion (of information); assimilation; consumption; absorption; (arch.) losing one's form and turning into something else
to get dark; to grow dark; to end (of a day, year, season, etc.); to come to an end; to be sunk in (e.g. despair); to be lost in (e.g. thought)
tenacious; tough; enduring; dogged; headstrong; stubborn
clop clop; rumble rumble; sound of something being boiled
plan; device; idea; design; contrivance; conception
substantiation; materialization; materialisation; (specific to object language classes) instantiation
being actualized; becoming apparent; becoming tangible; surfacing
invulnerability; immortality; insensibility to pain
weak point; weakness; shortcoming; defect; flaw; sore spot
need; want; necessity; costs; expenses
of all things (days, etc.)
to break into fragments; to go to pieces
finishing blow; coup de grâce
trampling down; overrunning; infringement; violation
cleaning up; sweeping up; mopping up
to draw a line (between); to make a distinction (between); to distinguish (between)