was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...
to spring; to bound; to be stimulated; to be encouraged; to pay handsomely; to splurge
privilege; special favor; special favour; benefit; prerogative; perk
distinction; discrimination
likes and dislikes; pickiness (about food); choosiness; fussiness; tastes; preferences
to deem acceptable; to approve of; to value; to consider a good thing
to spring at; to leap upon; to swoop down on; to throw oneself upon (e.g. an enemy)
something (equipped) with legs; sole of foot; one's manner of walking
with all one's strength; with all one's might
thicket; coppice; brushwood
covering; protection; backing; relief
one eye; one of one's eyes
to close (one's eyes); to shut
inverted; upside down; reversed; back to front
to creep; to steal up; to draw near unnoticed
horizontally; flat; across; crossways; crosswise
to mow down; to scythe down; to knock someone off their feet
linear; rectilinear; straight-line; straightforward; simple
suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows
to turn one's face; to turn around; to look over one's shoulder
after (practically) no time; immediately after; just; having no time to
barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty
one's last moments; death throes; agony of death
promotion; encouragement; fostering; unwanted help (usu. unintentionally harmful); unnecessary help
to jump at; to be attracted by
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front
gap; lag; difference; discrepancy; shear (e.g. shear stress)
to suffer an embarrassing defeat
to scatter; to cause a shower of; to disperse; to distribute; to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve
to fall flat; to fall face down
out of range; outside the limits (of...); outside (a) range; outside the scope
following (in the footsteps of); catching up with; coming level with
fortuitous; luck; windfall; godsend; good fortune