as one expects; as one wants; to one's satisfaction; as one sees fit
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)
rabbit; hare; coney; cony; lagomorph (esp. leporids)
stuffed toy; stuffed animal; plush toy; soft toy; cuddly toy
heavy; weighty; heavy (feeling, atmosphere, etc.); serious; gloomy
lip-syncing; lip-synching
reason; reasoning power; (one's) sense
Nicolai; Nicolais; Nikolai; Nikolais
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
perhaps; maybe; by some chance
recollection; retrospection; reflection; reminiscence
physiological; physical; visceral; instinctive; in one's guts
elopement; running away with a lover
what is to be done?; what should (I) do?; what (am I) to do?
these days; nowadays; now; at present; recently; lately
trembling with fear; filled with trepidation
to go in the direction of; to proceed toward; to become; to face (facts, circumstances, etc.); (arch.) to abide by; (arch.) to agree to
painful; being sorry; feeling sorry
Not a word to anyone; Mum's the word
to know; to understand; to be aware of; to consent; to agree
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
touching a wrong card (in karuta); buzzing too early (in a quiz); making a mistress of a servant; mistress (who is one's servant)
everybody; every last one of them; all
to be sacrificed; to fall victim to; to fall prey to
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
cause of offense; cause of offence; annoyance; spasms; convulsions; cramps
to disappear; to vanish; to abscond; to decamp
to negotiate (with someone about); to talk over (something with); to tackle someone (about); to throw on each other; to splash (water) on each other; to pour on each other
intelligence operative; spy
to borrow; to have a loan; to hire; to rent; to buy on credit
being unfamiliar with a locality; not knowing one's way around; (lit.) not knowing one's right hand from the left; being clueless
being overheard; being leaked (e.g. secrets); going in one ear and out the other
disadvantage; drawback; demerit; bad point; minus
going ahead; going first; preceding; coming before; scoring first; getting off to a lead
trend; tendency; movement; attitude
loving couple; couple of lovebirds; happily married couple (who are always together)
this way and that; (by) various means; (by) every means
to remove obstacles in the way of one's objective