unheard-of; unprecedented
unrequited love; one-sided love
jinx; omen (can be a good omen)
hot topic; talk of the town
to pitch in and help; to give someone a hand
joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party
setting; installing; setting up (meeting, conference, etc.); stage setting; setting (of a novel, movie, play, etc.)
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
to exclude; to leave out (of conversations, etc.); to freeze out; to send to Coventry
to turn round; to face about; to turn about
suffix appended to somebody else's family members
person concerned; interested party; related party
to bring (somebody into a place); to lead into
suspicious; dubious; unreliable; indecent; unseemly
to contact; to get in touch with; to check in (with)
president (of a society); chairman
hostility; antagonism; opposition
black; black go stone; guilt; guilty person
to cut and even up; to cut several pieces to the same size
clean; hygienic; sanitary; pure; virtuous; immaculate
far and away the best; the very best; cream of the crop; crème de la crème; decisive lead; commanding lead
to care for someone; to look after someone
to increase; to add to; to augment
number of times; frequency; count
to abate; to decrease; to diminish; to shorten
appointment; nomination; ordination; commission; designation
to bend; to crook; to lean; to tilt; to bend (the truth); to distort
cowardly; craven; unfair; mean; sneaky
inconvenient; inexpedient; unfavourable; wrong; improper; objectionable
to banter; to make fun of; to cool; to refrigerate; to window-shop; to look at without buying
to tell (somebody) to (do something)
unprecedented; never happened before; first time in history
the truth; fact; as it is; as you are; frank; bare plain
to show contempt for; to look down upon; to have a low opinion of; to cause to fall; to make decline
to talk or say too much; to go too far; to overstate; to exaggerate
mammoth (esp. the woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius)
even; if only; if just; as long as; the only thing needed
to freeze to; to be frozen to; to freeze in place; to be still
having no choice; at a loss for what to do; at one's wits' end
paper (in rock-paper-scissors); disappearing completely; coming to nought; foolishness; stupidity
silent (as the grave); deadly silent; deathly quiet
as if it were about oneself