check; keeping in check; containment (of enemy forces); diversionary action; pickoff throw; holding a runner on base
check; checkmate; stave off; control; restraint; inhibit
to be forestalled; to fall behind; to be one step behind
(animal) feed; fodder; pet food; bait; lure; enticement
to scatter; to sprinkle; to distribute (handbills, etc.); to spread (rumours, etc.); to give the slip; to throw off
labour; labor; effort; toil; trouble
catch (fishing); amount of fish caught; caught fish
monitoring; watching; observation; surveillance; guarding; supervision
abuse; misuse; perversion
how long; how far; how much
essential; important; crucial; vital; main
accurate; correct; precise; exact
numeral; figure; digit; numeric character
if I'm forced to say something; if anything; if I must say; if I must choose
corresponding to; being applicable to; being relevant to; coming under; falling under; fulfilling (requirements)
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
trend; tendency; movement; attitude
extensive; vast range; wide scope
thereabouts; vicinity; that area; that situation; those circumstances
safe (e.g. choice); secure; innocuous; acceptable; passable; satisfactory
to do something in readiness for; to get something (needful) done
that; the matter in question
to forget something ever existed; to pretend something didn't happen; to put something behind one; to forgive (something)
by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)
being too late; losing one's final chance
(not) always; (not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) all
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
at the same time as; while; as well as (multiple roles)
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
downfall; ruin; collapse; destruction
so; like this; in this way
all; altogether; entirely; exactly like; just like; spitting image of
words of praise; eulogy; compliment
whispering; murmuring; subdued
forcibly; against one's will
top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile
... being the case; (precisely) because ...; as might be expected from ...
occupation; profession; job; vocation; trade; calling
difference; variation; difference
inconsistency; discord; conflict; discrepancy; contradiction; failure
to refer to; to use as reference