praiseworthy; commendable; laudable; strange (person); weird; odd
to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)
all manner of (verbal) abuse; all kinds of names; abusive language; torrent of abuse; stream of insults
to ward off (e.g. an attack); to fend off (e.g. a question); to elude; to evade; to dodge; to turn aside (e.g. a joke)
food, clothing and shelter; necessities of life
to subsist; to keep on living
appearance; emergence; advent; arrival; showing up; coming to existence
hut; cabin; small theatre (theater); temporary playhouse; one's own house
pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says
formation; establishment; conclusion (e.g. of a deal); reaching (e.g. an agreement); being valid (of a theory, argument, etc.); holding
to come back; to bloom a second time
to intend; to be sure that
almost; very nearly; only just; barely; just in time
to be crushed; to be squashed; to go bankrupt; to go under; to be ruined (of a plan); to be cancelled; to be lost (of one's voice, eyesight, sense of smell, etc.)
world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign
to despair of; to see the vanity of
debt; loan; liabilities; number of games under the .500 mark
to sell; to betray; to sell out (one's friend, country, etc.); to make (oneself) known; to establish (a reputation) for oneself; to pick (a fight, quarrel, etc.)
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
worsening; deterioration; exacerbation; aggravation (of a disease)
to boil; to be boiling hot; to be on a rolling boil
wrong (guess or estimate); misdirected; irrelevant; off the point
being resented (by someone one holds resentment towards); responding to kindness with resentment; thinking ill of someone who meant to be kind; unjustified resentment; unreasonable grudge
hands and feet; limbs; person at one's beck and call; person at hand; reliable worker
ugly; unattractive; bad-looking; unsightly; unseemly; disgraceful
trace; tracks; site; remains; scar
unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected
to throw into; to toss into; to throw-in; to play a throw-in
poor (quality, conditions, etc.); bad; inferior; poor-quality
environment; surroundings; circumstances
to go mad; to lose one's mind; to get out of order; to go amiss; to go wrong (of a plan or expectation, etc.); to fall through
having no choice but to ...; all one can do is ...; there's nothing to do except ...; having nothing but ...; there is only ...; having only ...
to lift (with a crane, ropes, etc.); to raise; to hoist; to manipulate (a price) upward; to (artificially) raise; to push up
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
to anticipate; to expect; to place confidence in; to put trust in; to find promising; to see good prospects (in)
to show contempt for; to look down upon; to have a low opinion of; to cause to fall; to make decline
hateful; detestable; abominable; amazing; fantastic; admirable
to kick the bucket; to drop dead; to die; to be pooped; to be exhausted; to be knackered