jpdb beta

purse; handbag; wallet

4

elbowroom; leeway; room; reserve; margin; allowance

1

flapping; rattling (sound); noisily; commotion; kerfuffle

2

to take off (clothes, shoes, etc.); to undress

1

second half; latter half

5

middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years

1

man; male; masculine gender

1

face; looks; vestiges; trace

1

to emit a voice; to emit a sound; to be able to speak

2

about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite

1

to shake one's head

2

to have an interest (in something); to feel inclined (toward doing something)

1

to pass; to pass on; to give (something) a miss; to cut it out; to knock off (for the day); to let the matter drop

1

to come together; to join; to get married; to become a married couple

2

to resonate emotionally (with one); to strike home (words, etc.); (lit.) to stab in the chest

1

to get blurred; to get hoarse; to get husky; to graze; to scrape

1

to squeeze out; to wring out

1

as if ...; as if to say ...; as though ...

1

with a tap; with a knock; smoothly (proceed); without a hitch; even; equal

1

to point at

1

duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff); liability; onus

1

to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)

1

complete stranger; total stranger

1

indiscrimination; without discrimination; indiscriminate

1

unconsciousness

1

serious condition; critical condition

1

of all people

1

to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard

1

madness; insanity

2

to conceive; to become pregnant; to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with; to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.); to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.)

1

intent to kill; intent to murder; urge to kill; murderous impulse

2

with a slap; with a pop; without batting an eyelid; generously; cutesy suffix applied to names

2

nonchalantly; without a care

1

I don't care; fine, whatever; that's okay; sure, go ahead

2

right about-face

1

existence or nonexistence; presence or absence; consent or refusal; yes or no

1

to get someone to say; to make someone say; to let someone say; to let someone speak out; to make a sound

1

impressiveness; impact; force; intensity; appeal; strength

2

to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument); to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet

3

rolling over; turning over; turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); producing a positive from a negative (photography); producing a negative from a positive

1

fast walking; semi-jogging

1

to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)

1

dumbfounded; in mute amazement

1

customer; client; client company; business connection; trade partner

1

returning home directly

1

broken egg

1

settlement (of affairs); remedial measures; cleaning up afterwards

1

to say to each other; to exchange (jokes, comments, etc.); to quarrel; to dispute

1

management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome

1

a bit more; a bit longer

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