all night; throughout the night
discussion; talk; tête-à-tête; conference
will; volition; intention; intent; determination
hard; solid; stiff; tight; strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved); safe
to calm down; to compose oneself; to calm down; to settle down; to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in; to be settled
anything and everything; just about everything
to raise; to elevate; to do up (one's hair); to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to land (a boat); to show someone (into a room)
serving customers; looking after visitors; reception
business; trade; operations; sales
as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); still; all the same; even ... (e.g. "even a genius")
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of
ordinary; average; common; normal; like the average person; like most people
not less than; ... and over; beyond (e.g. one's expectations); above; above-mentioned; aforementioned
to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate
extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else
that's the way it is; such is life
to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article)
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
clearly; plainly; distinctly; to be clear; to be definite; to be certain
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely
settlement; solution; resolution
willingly; voluntarily; on one's own accord
land mine; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic; something that seems fine at first but turns out to be very bad (e.g. product, business); booby trap
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
explosion; detonation; eruption; eruption (of discontent, etc.); outburst; outpouring
destructive blast; blowing up; explosion
postpartum depression; postnatal depression
when it becomes; when it comes to
to wake up; to rouse out of bed; to knock on the door and wake someone
depression; low spirits; luxuriant (of vegetation)
hormone; cows' or pigs' offal (entrails)
remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted