fearfully; timidly; nervously; cautiously; gingerly
to ask a question; to begin to ask a question
look here; I say; well; I know what; I'll tell you what; just a minute
stiff and slackless; tense without any looseness; cling tightly; pulled or stretched as far as possible; creaking of a door or oar
paying one's own expenses; going into business for oneself; working independently; person who earns their own living
surplus; margin; leeway; composure; placidity; complacency
forgery; falsification; fabrication; counterfeiting
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
self-satisfied look; triumphant look; smug face; shit-eating grin
to become speechless; to be at a loss for words
to corner; to drive to the wall; to run down; to track down; to chase after
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
to curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely
to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on
small; little; tiny; insignificant; humble; modest
transfiguration; transformation; change of appearance
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
gentlemen; men; the men's (sign on toilet, bathroom, etc. doors)
how; in what way; how about; questionable
essential; important; crucial; vital; main
to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear
pointing out; identification
brow; glabella; middle forehead; area between the eyebrows
to wrinkle up (one's eyebrows, one's nose); to furrow; to crimple
to be silent; to say nothing
decision; determination; resolution
let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...
genuine article; real thing; real deal
artificial breasts; fake breasts
to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.); to be found out; to get away (of fish)
shock (psychological); crisis (esp. financial); event that rattles the markets; shock (physical, mechanical); shock (e.g. due to lack of blood flow); trauma
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
tottering; staggering; faltering; reeling
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable
mumblingly; mutteringly; unintelligibly
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case