falling behind (with a payment); being in arrears; non-payment; default; delinquency
to atone for; to expiate; to redeem; to make up for; to compensate for
settlement (financial); squaring accounts; liquidation; ending (a relationship); breaking up (with)
here and there; in places
every street corner; every crossing
guard; sentinel; garrison
(looking around) restlessly; (looking) all around; goggling
beyond expectations; beyond what one expected; not foreseen; exceeding assumptions
gap; lag; difference; discrepancy; shear (e.g. shear stress)
trader; smuggler; pusher; drug dealer; drug runner
making great haste, having been caught off guard; scurrying unprepared; rushing to an emergency with sword in hand, not having had time to affix it at the waist
to explain away (a mistake, failure, etc.); to make excuses for; to gloss over; to talk one's way out of
magic; conjuring; sleight of hand; legerdemain
intersection; crossing; crossroad; street corner; street
having to be; must be; should be; ought to be
seedbed; nursery; seed-plot
to let dry; to kill (vegetation); to season (lumber)
self-satisfaction; (self-)complacency; smugness
to let the tension out of one's shoulders; to relax; to not take oneself too seriously
private room; single (room); room for one; (toilet) stall
tower; tall building; turret; lookout; (arch.) brothel
reservation; appointment; contract; subscription; programming (e.g. a device); setting (e.g. a timer)
owner of a brothel or restaurant
water tank; cistern; fish tank; aquarium
glass bottle; glass jar; phial; vial
product name; name of an article
recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
to obey respectfully; to humble oneself; to sit straight (upright, respectfully, attentively)
husband and wife; married couple
to mind; to care; to worry
jujube (Ziziphus jujube); Chinese date; red date; small tea caddy (tea ceremony)
rock candy; sugar candy; crystallized sugar; sugar crystals
to come and stay; to drop in; to visit