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downtown high-rise area; street of office buildings; area of medium to tall business buildings

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contempt; scorn

1

amount of material resources

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office (usu. for construction, maintenance, services, etc.)

1

stinginess; miserliness; shabby; cheap; petty; narrow-minded

1

prevention; check

1

coming and going; traffic; road; street; association; socializing

4

street fighting; urban warfare

2

the curtain opens (for the start of a play, act, etc.); the curtain rises; to start (of a play); to start (of an event, campaign, etc.); to begin

1

conference room; council room

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urban areas; the streets; town; city

2

temporary; transient; trifling; trivial; careless; perfunctory

1

time to pay the piper; (lit.) time to pay the land tax (in kind)

2

vindication of honour; vindication of honor; making up for loss; revenge

2

guidelines for action; personal principles

1

to act up (machine); to go out of tune (instrument); to not work right; to be knocked off stride; to lose one's bearings; to lose one's presence of mind

1

suddenly; all of a sudden

2

danger zone

1

closure (of a road); suspension of traffic; Road Closed; No Through Road; closed to traffic

1

detour; circuitous route; diversion

1

middle; centre; center; midpoint; heart

3

blocking the way; standing in the way

1

let sleeping dogs lie; wake not a sleeping lion; (lit.) the spirit you do not approach will not curse you

1

to cross; to go across; to go through; to cut across

2

standing signboard; billboard; hoarding

1

shoulder (of a road); berm

1

roadside trees

1

headlong rush; rushing recklessly

1

bedrock

3

being outnumbered (e.g. in a military context)

1

to bring down (an animal, opponent, etc.); to kill; to shoot dead; to shoot down

2

teamwork

1

system error

1

intimidation; threat; bluster

1

tension; tensile force

2

to lend an ear (to); to hear out; to listen to

3

all sides; the four cardinal directions and the four ordinal directions; large hanging paper lantern

1

volley firing; fusillade; broadside

1

all around; as far as the eye can see

1

spread (e.g. of a disease); rampancy; infestation; proliferation; being widespread

8

one knee

1

(undesirable but) inseparable relationship

1

position (where one is standing); place where one stands; position; stance; standpoint

2

life on the run

3

volatilization; volatilisation

1

medicine; agent; (chemical) substance; drug; dose

1

battle formation; battle array; lineup (of a team, etc.); cast; staff

2

to take (someone) away; to carry off; to abduct; to kidnap

5

to strike back at; to bite back; to turn on; to rise against; to oppose; to defy

1

iai; art of drawing one's sword, cutting down one's opponent and sheathing the sword afterwards

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