circumference; girth; tour; pilgrimage; circulation (e.g. of blood)
to take hold of; to possess; to haunt
to care for (the sick); to nurse; to attend (someone's deathbed)
taking an examination (esp. school and university entrance)
job hunting; job searching
perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem
to stray from the right path; to go wrong; to go off the rails; to turn delinquent
space; interval; space character; whitespace
to follow; to come along with one; to accompany
thicket; coppice; brushwood
to come out; to appear; to turn up; to emerge
just this side of; one step short of; on the brink
to stab each other; to sacrifice oneself in order to harm someone else
to bring down (an animal, opponent, etc.); to kill; to shoot dead; to shoot down
meaningless words; words that make no sense
number of words a person speaks; number of dependents; number of mouths to feed; number of shares, items, applications, etc.
one clap; one beat; one mora (taken as a unit of time)
safely; without incident; without mishap; in peace; peacefully; quietly
to step on a landmine; to really step in it; to screw up; to open up a can of worms
frail; having a weak constitution; being in poor health
at present; currently; so far; for now; for the time being
preface; introduction; preamble
about; concerning; related to; -ish
transfiguration; transformation; change of appearance
divorce; dissolution of adoption
running errands (for someone else); errand boy; gofer; dogsbody
numerator; molecule; member; element
being overheard; being leaked (e.g. secrets); going in one ear and out the other
oneself (itself, etc.); I; me; you; by oneself (itself, etc.); interjection expressing anger or chagrin
to have a bitter experience
to turn (one's face) away; to avert (one's eyes)
surgery; operation; procedure; skill with one's hands; sleight of hand
before one knows it; before one realises; without one's knowledge; without noticing
anything and everything; all sorts of things; by all means
confession; acknowledgement; acknowledgment
to fall onto; to happen; to befall