master and servant; lord and retainer; employer and employee
quick to take a hint; very responsive; quick on the uptake
one's youth; early life; one's early days; one's early years
to share (life's) joys and sorrows (with); to share the good and the bad (with); to stick together through thick and thin
hard to get; hard to come by
assistant; right-hand man; subordinate; (lit.) wifely role
on good terms with; on cordial terms with; getting along well with; to make friends with; to be good friends with; to get along with
world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign
to stop (doing something); to cease; to leave as is; to leave alone; to exclude; to except
to make an enemy (of); to antagonize
in short; in a nutshell; in a word; to cut a long story short
cannot avoid doing; cannot help but (do); is compelled to do; (feel) obliged to (do); has to do
one by one; in detail; minutely
to take the middle (between the two); to split the difference
to be evident; to be obvious; to understand completely
errand; mission; messenger; bearer; familiar spirit; use
the most one can do; the best one can do; the best one can expect
point of compromise; common ground
taking into consideration; giving consideration (to)
president of the party; party leader
rough; crude; sloppy; miscellaneous
knot; tying; bundle; lumping; conclusion; ending
point in common; common term; common trait; common denominator
successfully; fairly; artfully; nicely; thoroughly
a thorn in one's side; a pain in the butt (often someone higher in rank, ability, etc.); nuisance; something in the way
stating (one's views); expressing
depreciation; decline; fall; slump
wintry; very cold-looking (e.g. landscape); bleak (e.g. room, street); desolate; empty (of furnishings)
hanky-panky; juggling; cheating; deception; smoke and mirrors
support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy
cannot be helped; unavoidable
to hasten to join; to hurry to visit
without; unacceptable; not alright; unsatisfactory
sovereign; emperor; monarch
consideration; guess; conjecture; judgment; judgement
diagonally upward; (going in a) completely unexpected direction (of a story, result, etc.)