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to get in someone's pocket; to help oneself to someone's wallet; to curry favour (favor); to butter up; to get in close to one's opponent

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what sort; what kind

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feeling uneasy; very worried; very anxious; on tenterhooks; on pins and needles

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to use one's influence; to pull strings; to take measures; to make the necessary preparations

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meeting (face-to-face); seeing; visit; interview

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idly; lazily; aimlessly; evasively; elusively; vaguely

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serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady

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to join (hands); to take (each other's hands); to scramble for; to struggle for; to pay attention to; to take notice of

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negligent; careless; slipshod; slovenly; reckless; irresponsible

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sensation; feeling; tendency; propensity

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apprehensions; misgivings; uneasiness; anxiety; fear

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near the mark; pretty close; not a bad guess

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to have in one's dreams

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to some extent; to a certain extent

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knock; knocking; fungo hitting; hitting balls for fielding practice

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being out of time; passing the deadline; time-out

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oblong; vertical writing style (e.g. on envelopes); portrait orientation

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ornament; decoration

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simple; plain; modest

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chief seat; seat of honor; seat of honour; head of the table

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to rest one's chin in one's hands

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above the ceiling

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to be shut; to close; to be locked; to tighten; to be tightened; to become sober

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to perceive; to sense; to take in; to grasp; to feel

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skill; dexterity; master hand

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or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options); ... or ...; as soon as; right after; while still

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to speed; to tear away; to skip over (e.g. pages)

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sparkle of one's eyes; insight; discernment; penetration

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pressure

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dozens; scores of; decades

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10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various

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ruffian; rowdy (person)

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reason; logic; sense; natural way of things

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domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)

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bottom of the ocean; seafloor; seabed; undersea; submarine

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historic ruins (remains, relics); archeological site

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to reach an extreme; to reach a limit; extremely; to be stuck; to be in a dilemma; to be decided

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madness; insanity

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storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; storm (e.g. of protest)

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ancient times

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invulnerability; immortality; insensibility to pain

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monster

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capture (of enemy territory); taking (by storm); defeating (an opponent); attacking (a problem) strategically

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equal; identical; the same; no different (to); just like; equivalent

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to raise; to lift; to hang up; to raise prices (artificially, deliberately)

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to meet (someone of higher status); (arch.) to be recognized (esp. by someone of higher status); (arch.) to be visible; (arch.) to be seen

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bow; bowing

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hiding; concealing; being hidden; pocket

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(appropriate to) time, place, occasion

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purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not

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