punishment without a legal trial; vigilantism
serves you right!; see what happens!
carelessly; thoughtlessly; inadvertently
personal history; background; log; record; hysteresis
through (e.g. an intermediary, a medium); via; over (e.g. a network); across; by way of; by means of
to creep in; to steal in; to sneak in
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery genre; detective genre
arrest; apprehension; capture
ancient times; prehistoric times; the distant past; a very long time ago
even though it is not; despite not
police officer; policeman; policewoman
police drama (television); detective drama
famous product; special product; speciality; specialty
(police) detective; criminal matter
to shun; to avoid; to ostracize; to neglect; to distance oneself from; to give the hard shoulder
too much for one to handle; beyond one's capacity; unmanageable; uncontrollable; incorrigible; obstreperous
to deprecate oneself and praise the listener; to abase oneself
paving (a road); surfacing (with asphalt, concrete, etc.); pavement
maintenance; servicing; putting in place; development; improvement
traffic light; traffic signal; signal (mechanism); semaphore (apparatus)
car; automobile; vehicle; wheel; castor; caster
to cross (e.g. road); to traverse
circulation (of money, goods, etc.); distribution; circulation (of air, water, etc.); ventilation; flow
to push someone (towards); to encourage someone
roadway; road; carriageway
lying face down; lying on one's face; placing upside down; placing face down
to raise one's face; to lift one's head; to raise one's eyes
piercing; shrill; noisy; loud; clamorous; wild
to win; to achieve; to gain; to obtain; to secure
to have a hard time of it
sense of loss; feeling of loss
to run over (with a vehicle); to knock down
to skin (one's knee); to graze; to scratch
boiling; seething; becoming heated (e.g. of a debate); excitement; soaring (of prices); shooting up
to push aside; to push one's way through
to make good use of one's spare moments; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)
(the extent of) one's vocabulary
devastating; catastrophic; crushing
to keep up (appearances); to put up (a good front); to smooth over (a mistake, fault, etc.); to gloss over; to mend; to repair
ordinary person; average person; man in the street; everyman; (a) nobody
isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine