to lie in wait (for); to be on the watch (for); to wait (for); to watch (for)
unconcernedly; nonchalantly; shamelessly; brazenly
missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
destructive blast; blowing up; explosion
dealing with; coping with
(what) one is trying to say; (what) one wants to say; (what) one is saying; (what) one means
kidnapper; kidnaper; abductor
paralysis; palsy; numbness; stupor
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)
to drizzle; to become bleary (eyes)
to straighten up one's back (e.g. stand up straight, sit up straight); to hold one's head high
putting on a brave face; put-on cheeriness; pretending one is fine; show of courage; bravado; Dutch courage
to step into (e.g. someone else's territory); to break into; to raid; to come to grips with; to get to the core of
inference; deduction; induction; reasoning
in accordance with; following; roughly; about; Street; Avenue
extraordinary; preposterous; outrageous; absurd
to prepare oneself (for the worst); to resolve oneself
seriousness; earnestness; truth; sanctity
that; the matter in question
to go through a bitter experience; to get into trouble; to get hurt; to feel pain
to move forward; to move on
recoil; hesitation; flinching; shrinking back
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
to cross (e.g. road); to traverse
to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to
to pop off; to pop out; to fly off; to shoot off; to burst open
to go wrong; to go awry; to go off track; to go out of whack
to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up
many times over; often; repeatedly; time after time
to distribute; to hand out; to deliver; to allot; to allocate; to place (staff, soldiers, etc.)
lifeline; safety rope; safety tether
to play a hand game (e.g. rock, paper, scissors)
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
minimum; at the very least
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
contriving (to raise funds, to find time, etc.); working out (a solution)
that is to say; so that means
without permission; without notice