judging; inspection; examination; investigation; review
seemingly good; (of) good appearance; looking good
eeny, meeny, miny, moe; eenie, meenie, minie, moe
looking for a particular person or thing; searching high and low; hunting for; picking out; singling out
to lend; to loan; to let out on hire
rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby
unable to stomach; sticking in one's throat; displeased with
gathering; meeting; assembly; collection; attendance
shrill whistling sound; reddening or brightening slightly; rush of blood to the head
foul play (sport); breaking the rules; infringement; irregularity
police; polis (ancient Greek city state); -city
absolutely every little bit; everything from A to Z; systematically; thoroughly; one after another
over-the-knee socks; overknee socks
to speak (of something); to be effective; to be powerful; to mean everything
being too late; losing one's final chance
fragment; scrap; piece; shred
one-by-one; separately; in detail
intelligence gathering; information gathering
light (color, colour, taste); simple; plain; frank; candid; ingenuous
off the mark; off base; misdirected; irrelevant
long, slender and well-proportioned; smooth, continuous (movement)
Alice band; horseshoe-shaped hairband made of metal or plastic (often covered with cloth); Katyusha rocket launcher (Soviet)
to make round; to roll up; to seduce; to cajole; to round off (a fraction); (arch.) to lump together
aperture; bore; calibre; caliber
moving forward (e.g. vehicle); onward movement; advance (work, procedure, etc.); advancement; progress (of a disease); disease progression
(camera) shutter; shutter (for a door, window, etc.)
to cover; to hide; to conceal; to wrap; to disguise
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
to fan (oneself, flames, etc.); to flap (in the wind); to instigate; to stir up; to drive up prices (by buying a large amount of something); to take a photo from a low angle; to tailgate
pit of the stomach; solar plexus
provocative; incendiary; inflammatory; suggestive; lascivious; risqué
to not understand what somebody is getting at; to not understand what is being talked about
being out of time; passing the deadline; time-out
one's heart; one's feelings; one's inner thoughts; one's mind
detonation velocity; velocity of detonation; VOD; extreme speed; explosive speed