immediately; right away; at once; instantly
to check; to hold back; to keep at bay; to stop; to prevent; to stem
talk; recital; narration; topic
significant; useful; meaningful; worthwhile; valuable; of interest
account of a dream; fantastic story; wild tale; empty dream
cum (e.g. bedroom-cum-study); holding both roles (e.g. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs); and; in addition; concurrently; at the same time
escape from reality; escapism; ostrichism
common; shared; to be common (to); to be shared (by); -wide
to repeat; to be frequent
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights
to begin talking; to open up
youthful indiscretion; youthful enthusiasm; youthful excess
such; like that; that sort of; very
in some way; somehow or other; somewhere or other
(apparently) that's what it's like, isn't it
soft sound; dampening (of sound)
finally; in the end; on top of all that
to temper thoroughly; to train well
good at fighting; usually wins a fight
to follow; to come along with one; to accompany
tedious; boring; being fed up with
besides; furthermore; on top of that; and yet; nevertheless; even so
audience (with a person of high standing); eye-level
by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking
to be tired of; to be sick of; to get fed up with
to bring up a subject; to touch on a matter
(idle) curiosity; fancifulness; whimsy; (having) strange tastes
duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff); liability; onus
still; yet; more; still more; as ...; like ...
generally; in the main; (more or less) everything; all parts; ordinary; usual
one breath; time of one breath; pause; break; (doing in) one go; doing without stopping
aaah!; oooh!; oh no!; oh boy!
only; just; since; after; remaining (in a particular state)
to snuggle up to; to nuzzle; to burrow into; to press a part of one's body against something
to resound; to echo; to reverberate