climate and natural features (of a region)
helping hand; help; support; aid
to hold out; to extend (e.g. one's hands); to thrust (javelin); to offer (e.g. aid, help, etc.)
(move) slowly (e.g. walk); sluggishly; stolidly; ploddingly; heavily
unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to
very fast; in a twinkle; before one's eyes
glaringly; dazzlingly; blazingly
very high; high up; aloft; only; merely; just
brightness; brilliance; brilliancy; radiance; glitter
elaborate; delicate; exquisite
to become decrepit and ugly with age
sharp parting remark; parting threat
unconditionally; as a rule
to be complicated; to be elaborate; (arch.) to push in; (arch.) to be crowded
to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter
to be the work of; to be the result of; to be done by; to concern; to affect; to involve
tofu; bean curd; beancurd
house; greenhouse; house music; go to your kennel (cage, bed, etc.)!
equally (well); as ... as; no less ... than ...; evenly matched; well-matched
to be busy at work; to work diligently
to be on the verge of; to be about to; to be on the point of
unprecedented; unheard-of; record-breaking
local; localized; partial; topical (application)
though imperfect; somehow; somehow or other
blame; censure; rebuke; reproof
to punish; to penalize; to penalise
to suffer a blast or indirect blow; to be subject to the surplus force of an impetus
(person who has the) hands of God; master; virtuoso
one's future; one's fate; prospects; one's way; one's path
concord; harmony; concert
stimulation (e.g. of an economy); revitalization (e.g. of a town); rejuvenation; activation
wherein; therein; thereinto
groundless; entirely contrary to fact
dangling; hanging; suspended; pending; half done; in limbo
to vanish gradually (e.g. of a voice); to trail off; to die away; to feel one's soul leaving one's body (from embarrassment, grief, etc.); to feel faint; to feel numb
to be to the point; to be pertinent