beautiful face; good looks; beauty
fondly; admiringly; with fascination; with adoration; with enchantment
losing one's nerve; feeling awkward; feeling timid; feeling hesitant; feeling nervous; feeling diffident
difficult to approach; inaccessible
amiability; friendliness; fondness (of someone); affection; compliments; civilities
chance; start; opportunity; cause; reason; excuse
major incident; major happening; big scandal
opportunity; chance; trigger; cause
complete change; about-face
dangerous; critical; grave; uncertain; unreliable; dodgy
and yet; though; when; in spite of
all; altogether; entirely; exactly alike (e.g. in appearance); spitting image of; identical
affinity; feeling of closeness (with someone); feeling of kinship
to do something in readiness for; to get something (needful) done
period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); carving; engraving; strictness; cruelty
(young) girl; maiden; young lady
(not even) an inch; (not even) a little bit; (lit.) one millimeter
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; (good) idea; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
bitter tears; (lit.) tears of blood
patting; stroking; caressing
sticky; syrupy; weakly (of a flame); gently (e.g. boil); dozing off; napping
tolerance; open-mindedness; forbearance; generosity; magnanimity
precious; valuable; priceless; noble; exalted; sacred
to pin (someone) down; to hold down; to shut out (one's opponent); to keep (the opposing team) from scoring; to suppress; to control
return gift; return favour; revenge; change (in a cash transaction)
opening (one's mouth) wide; saying "aah"; crying loudly; wailing; bawling
language area of the cortex; speech centre (center)
to behave buggily (of software); to act up; to behave strangely
to answer; to fire back; to retort; to redo; to do over; to try again
to be oversized (overloud, etc.)
thank you for the meal; that was a delicious meal; what a wonderful meal