worry; concern; anxiety; care; help; aid
these days; nowadays; now; at present; recently; lately
warm; mild; warm (of a colour); mellow; having enough money
calculation; computation; bill; check; consideration; allowance
generous; magnanimous; big-hearted; broad-minded; (lit.) big-bellied
uh-huh; mm-hmm; with a moan; with a groan
suddenly; abruptly; slowly; leisurely; deliberately
addition; supplement; appending; appendix
older brother; elder brother
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
elder brother; one's senior; older man; man older than oneself
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
at every opportunity; for each and every thing that crops up; with every little thing; whenever possible; whenever the chance arises; at every turn
colouring; coloring; sex appeal (esp. of women); sexiness; interest in the opposite sex; sexual feelings; charm
clip-clop; clippety-clop; clamshell cellphone; flip cellphone
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
and yet; though; when; in spite of
one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission
first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface
grave; sad; mournful; sorrowful; pensive
expression; look; countenance; face
to see through (a plot, lie, etc.); to penetrate into; to discover; to find out
measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove; strategy
wisdom; jnana (higher knowledge)
hit; success; guess; prediction; affability; friendliness; sensation
rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk
hot topic; talk of the town
unheard-of; unprecedented; unparalleled in history (unparallelled); record-breaking
to fail; to blunder; to make a mess; to drink up; to eat up
(apparently) that's what it's like, isn't it
important person; influential figure; big shot; big thing; big one; big game
disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem
source (of a river); fountainhead; source; origin; root
wanted; wished for; in need of; I want (you) to
on purpose; deliberately; intentionally
to make muddy (of a liquid); to make cloudy; to make turbid; to make ambiguous; to evade (e.g. the point); to be noncommittal about