to bring (someone) back home; to take (someone) back home
to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at
exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin
very; awfully; exceedingly; (not) at all; by no means; simply (cannot)
to repel; to drive away; to repulse; to reject
spare energy, time or money; remaining strength; reserve power; money to spare
and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing
to run to; to come running; to rush (someplace); to hasten
to gain time; to play for time; to buy time
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
to force; to compel; to coerce; to press; to impose
unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate
start; commencement; beginning; initiation
worst; horrible; horrid; in the worst case; if worst comes to worst
annihilation; total destruction; complete destruction; crushing defeat
to be in danger of; to be liable to
present condition; existing state; status quo; current state
(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion
escape; break-out; prolapse; proptosis
gaining time; stalling for time; time-buying
interior; inside; internal
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
in the twinkling of an eye; in a flash
fall; sinking; surrender; capitulation
inside of a castle; area surrounded by castle walls
pardon; forgiveness; tolerance; leniency; mercy; going easy (on someone)
to roll up; to enfold; to swallow up; to involve; to drag into
contrary to one's expectations
to become confused (disconcerted, disorganized, disorganised); to be flustered; to panic; to hurry; to rush; to hasten
single word; a few words; brief comment
such; like that; that sort of; very
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
that's the way it is; yes; is that so?; is it?
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; discomfiture; bafflement
battlefield; battleground
supposing; even if; granting that; temporarily; provisionally; for the time being
to be descended from; to inherit (a disposition, etc.) from one's ancestors
to be caught; to be arrested; to hold on to; to grasp; to find (e.g. proof); to get (e.g. a taxi)
while; during (the time when)