relationship; relation; terms (good, friendly, etc.)
source; origin; cause; beginning; genesis
loss and gain; advantage and disadvantage
influential person; man of importance
outward appearance; exterior appearance; outward show; looks
house; home; one's house; one's home; one's husband
right of residence (i.e. right to go on leasing a house, etc.)
lodger who pays nothing for room and board; freeloader; sponger
lease agreement; rental contract
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
for a moment; for a minute; for a while; for some time; for the time being; for now
one's station in life; one's personal history; one's circumstances; one's lot; one's destiny; one's future
business conditions; the market; good (economic) times; prosperity; liveliness; energy
hanging low (over); hovering around (price level); low hanging (e.g. clouds); sluggish (e.g. economy); slump; recession
minus; negative (quantity); deficit; disadvantage; drawback; negative (ion, pole, growth, image, effect, etc.)
landlord; landlady; house owner; home owner; head of the household
to injure; to damage; to kill; to hinder; to obstruct
profit-and-loss arithmetic; calculating profit and loss; mercenary point of view
suddenly; all of a sudden; abruptly
thing that should be (carefully) avoided; no-no; thing to definitely not do; something forbidden; taboo
to give up on; to turn one's back (on); to abandon; to forsake; to dump (e.g. romantic partner)
anyway; anyhow; at any rate; in any case
sink or swim; all or nothing; hit or miss; make or break
guess; conjecture; surmise
twice; again; second time
economical; bargain; good value; good-value
to spend; to expend; to waste; to squander; to devote
complicity (in a crime); collusion
exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; alternating current; AC
on good terms with; on cordial terms with; getting along well with; to make friends with; to be good friends with; to get along with
to manage; to arrange; to talk over; to dispose of
joint; knuckle; tune; melody; knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows
to go with (a companion); to hang out with; to do together