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to dirty one's hands

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help; assistance; service

1

beneficial; profitable; useful; helpful; instructive

2

to butter up; to try to get on the good side of

1

miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable

1

to beg forgiveness; to ask for someone's pardon; to ask for permission

1

claim (for compensation); customer complaint seeking compensation; (general) complaint; objection

9

largest class; top category

1

prisoner (of war)

18

report; notification; tip; message (in information and communication theory)

1

border

41

wholesale store; wholesale dealer; wholesaler

1

such a thing; something like that

3

highwayman; bandit; brigand; highway robbery; holdup; mugging

1

typical; representative; archetypal; quintessential; stereotypical; model

1

looting

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to be on the lookout; to lie in wait

1

breakdown; rupture

6

batting average

1

plot; scheme; trick; design; intrigue; artifice

3

earnest; sincere; pressing; urgent; pertinent; appropriate

3

human nature; human heart; public feeling; people's sentiments; consciousness; awareness

9

steering; helmsman; coxswain; guidance; leadership; leader

1

makikomi (judo throw); vehicle accident involving a turn (e.g. when a car turns and hits a bicycle that was going straight); left-turn accident; right-turn accident

1

to knock (ideas) against each other; to present competing ideas; to have a lively exchange of ideas; to smash together; to crash into each other; to throw at each other

2

to discuss; to find fault with; to criticize; to criticise

1

copy; duplicate; facsimile; transcript

1

as everyone knows; needless to point out

1

drop-kick

1

doing things at one's own pace (e.g. slower than others); doing things one's own way (esp. in an inconsiderate manner)

5

(non-documentary) television series; TV drama; teledrama; drama; dramatic incident; spectacle

3

unladylike; unbecoming; immodest; unthinkable; impossible; ridiculous

2

utterly stark naked; wearing only one's birthday suit

1

physical beauty

1

narcissist

1

poisonous air; poisonous gas; poisonous ingredient; poisonous nature; malice; spite

2

closet

1

hearsay

4

once-in-a-lifetime encounter (hence should be cherished as such)

1

minimum; minuscule; local minimum

3

American; American-style (weak) drip coffee

1

major loss; crushing defeat; big discount

1

puppet; marionette; puppeteer; (arch.) prostitute

6

joy; pleasure; delight

2

the mind's eye

1

(the extent of) one's vocabulary

1

big treat; great offer

1

secret

1

to blur; to shade off; to gradate; to obscure; to make ambiguous

1

good sense

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