small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive
way; method; means; resource; course
upper part; upper stream; upper course of a river; right side of the stage (audience's or camera's POV); stage left (actor's POV); skillful (in comparisons)
obliging person; person who likes looking after others
to enquire; to inquire; to seek information
national border; provincial border
fort; fortress; stronghold; fortification
force (bulldoze) one's way through
to drag along; to pull; to force someone along; to prolong; to drag out; to influence strongly
visit for no reason; go on fool's errand
survival of the fittest; the law of the jungle; (lit.) the weak are meat the strong do eat
law; regulation; rule; code; agreement; arrangement
to be sad; to mourn for; to regret
timewise; temporal; chronal
loss (of assets, profit, etc.)
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
(in a) long time; long time (ago); while (ago); long ago; long while (ago); (in a) long while
to require much effort; to be hard to do; to be bone-breakingly hard
cowardly; timid; easily frightened
not asking (about); letting go unquestioned; disregarding; ignoring; overlooking
to be ordered (to do); to be charged with (a duty); to be assigned (a job)
buying up of goods; cornering (market)
in search of; in order to look for
shortcut; short-cut hairstyle for women
have a good day; take care; see you
to get complicated; to grow worse; to turn sour
that's a different matter; that's a different story
being stuck between a rock and a hard place; being in a dilemma; being torn between conflicting demands
platform truck; hand truck; trolley; (railway) truck; bogie; flatcar
cargo hold (of an aircraft, ship, etc.); cargo bay
lifting (a child) high up in the air
horsepower; hp; energy; vitality; horse-drawn cart
surplus-; excess-; over-; per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents)
lading; loading; carrying
as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively
to work too hard; to try too hard; to strain oneself; to overdo it; to go too far
family name; house name; family honour; family honor
crotch; crutch; groin; fork (in a tree, road, river, etc.); tines (of a fork)
to be lifted; to be raised; to happen suddenly; to occur; to be homeroom teacher for the same class multiple years in a row; to move up with one's class
suddenly and forcefully (e.g. jerk, poke, shove); in a single gulp; in one go