karoshi; death from overwork
to pity; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to tend to (e.g. an injury); to care for; to nurse
hustle; working hard; doing with enthusiasm; showing eagerness; being full of vigour
falling asleep at the wheel
dirty joke; blue joke; indecent topic; bawdy subject; sex talk
to recover consciousness; to come to
to awaken; to arouse from sleep; to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of); to sober up; to dampen
to consider as; to regard (as equivalent); to deem (as); to equate
odious; hateful; awful; horrid; revolting
(doing) as one pleases; to one's heart's content; letting (something) go unchecked; leaving uncontrolled; leaving (something) to take its own course
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
honor; honour; credit; prestige
to fling off; to throw off; to cast aside; to abandon; to throw to the winds
opening (one's mouth) wide; saying "aah"; crying loudly; wailing; bawling
entirely useless; completely worthless; no no; don't!
plaster cast; cast; gypsum; plaster-of-paris
bedridden; confined to bed
failing to practice what one preaches
recovery (from an illness); recuperation; convalescence
to topple over; to be overturned; to capsize; to be overruled; to be reversed; to be discredited
shamelessly; acting brazenly unaffected; being resigned to (disgrace)
I wonder about that; don't bet on it; famous last words
deterrence; ability to deter (an attack, etc.)
private office; private practice
picture dealer; commercial art gallery
rock; boulder; crag; cliff; anchor
hand; arm; handwriting; penmanship; 'shake' (command to have a dog place its paw in your hand)
to be ill; to suffer from; to worry about; to be concerned about; to have trouble doing ...; to be unable to ...
chance encounter (worth treasuring); a connection made with another person by chance
personal (employee); employed; retained
repeatedly; over and over again; fully (e.g. understand); very much; very well
hoping against hope; desperately hoping; as a last hope
to grow thickly; to be overgrown; to thrive; to grow in abundance
private funds; own funds; private property