(in the) presence (of); in front (of); before (someone)
please; somehow or other; one way or another
not a chance; you wish!; that's not going to happen; that won't work
shell (of crab, tortoise, etc.); carapace; person's back; years of experience
to come apart; to unravel; to come loose; to become disarrayed (e.g. hair)
tongue; tongue-like object; clapper (of a bell); talon (of a lock)
to gust; to blow violently
to float; to set afloat; to show on one's face (smile, sadness, etc.); to recall; to call to mind
shooting; firing; emitting; ejection; projection; injection
root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature
cowardly; timid; easily frightened
resembling closely; being strikingly similar; bearing a strong likeness
to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)
what would (you) do?; what to do about it
as (much) as possible; as (much) as one can; wherever practicable; if possible
to boil; to simmer; to stew; to seethe
to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)
raising one's hand; show of hands (e.g. for a vote); salute
permeation (of thought, ideology, culture, etc.); infiltration (e.g. of ideas); permeation (of a liquid, etc.); soaking; osmosis
to dig out; to hollow out; to cut into
agglutination; adhesion; fusion; combination; blending; uniting
iron wall; impregnable fortress; impregnable; invulnerable; unassailable
to give off sparks; to spark; to scintillate; to have a heated argument; to combat; to do something fiercely
place; point; part; counter for places, parts, passages, etc.
criterion; standard; yardstick; rough estimate; approximation
three; three years of age
to age; to grow old (esp. in appearance); to show marks of age
use; application; employment; utilization; utilisation
alley; alleyway; teahouse garden; path through a gate (or through a garden, etc.)
to act (a part); to play (a role); to perform (a play, etc.); to put on (a production); to commit (a blunder); to disgrace oneself
to come to mind; to pop into one's head
the matter you have been talking about
call for attention; alert; heads-up; reminder
several times; a few times
trial calculation; preliminary calculation; estimation
when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...
to plan; to attempt; to plot; to conspire; to aim for; to strive for
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception