byway; side street; cross street; wrong way; digression
immediate reply; quick answer; ready agreement
payment in advance; advance payment; prepayment
speaking without thinking; words spoken without much thought
conventional phrase; stock phrase; cliche; frequently used musical (guitar) phrase
how admirably; how wonderfully; how skillfully
tally; check; piece of wood or paper split in half and given to each party as a form of proof (e.g. of a transaction)
fragment; one of the group or party
character (in a play or novel); dramatis personae
all you have to do is; just; that's all
making efficient; optimization
to rally; to make a comeback
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
remaining; left-over; excess
innocence; being not guilty
heredity; (genetic) inheritance
billow; surge; large wave
instigator; originator; initiator; torch bearer; incendiary; agitator
flowers budding; blooming; flowering; showing results; becoming popular; blooming
innocence; guiltlessness; absence of the fact; insubstantiality; (arch.) insincerity; (arch.) dishonesty
to be forestalled; to be taken in; to be cheated; to be outwitted
to be mixed together; to be blended; to intermingle; to commingle
to claim victims; to cause casualties
to bring into the open; to reveal; to uncover (e.g. evidence); to bring to light
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
alteration; falsification; faking
very loud volume; megavolume
sticking; clinging; with a smack (e.g. sitting down); hard; all over; thickly
desperate situation with no escape; being driven into a corner; being cornered; last extremity
executable (e.g. executable file); capable of putting into practice
madly in love; head over heels; fanatically doting; collapsed; out of spirits
being overheard; being leaked (e.g. secrets); going in one ear and out the other
to count on one's fingers
transition; change; progress; passing (of time)
immediately; instantly; with nary a pause; without a moment's delay
to catch and tie up; to apprehend; to entangle; to trap; to brush out (e.g. dust, fur, plaque); to extract
quick work; (clever) feat
equal match; good match; fair match; equal in ability; being a worthy rival