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matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)

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be; is

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oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!

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return; welcome home

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answering machine; answerphone

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to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include

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such; like that; that sort of; very

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question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion

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that; those; the

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first of all; at once; right away; for now; for the time being

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to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

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wasteful; a waste; too good; more than one deserves; impious; profane

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go home; get out

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vigilance; caution; alertness; precaution; being on guard

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ordinary; common; free of charge; unaffected; as is; only

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to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing

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it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...

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to lose one's cool; to blow one's top; to flip one's lid; to get angry

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to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in

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with the exception of; excepting; excluding

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to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to hug; to have (a thought or feeling); to hold; to harbour (suspicion, doubt, etc.)

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by myself; in person; by oneself

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and yet; though; when; in spite of

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mind; heart; spirit; the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.)

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to return; to come back

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paying for one's mistakes; getting one's just deserts; suffering the consequences (of one's own actions); reap what you sow

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door (Western-style, car, etc.)

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to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen

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urgency; emergency

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client

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to take out; to get out; to put out; to reveal; to submit (e.g. thesis); to turn in; to publish

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decision; determination

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idea; plan; draft; rough copy; expectation; (arch.) desk

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advance arrangements; preparatory meeting; overlap (of a coat, etc.); (arch.) making something match exactly

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to be decided; to be settled; to be unchanging; to be the same (as always); to be a fixed rule; to be destined; to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.)

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electricity; (electric) light

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pasture; grazing land

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ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah

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that; that thing; that person; then; that time; that place (over there); down there (i.e. one's genitals)

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mistake; error; blunder

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is not; am not; are not; isn't it?

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place; spot; field; discipline; occasion; situation; scene (of a play, movie, etc.)

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in accordance with; following; roughly; about; Street; Avenue

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guess; conjecture

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perhaps; likely; probably; I dare say

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other party; other side; ahead; in front; destination

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director; executive; officer; official; person in charge

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planning; project; plan; design

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no good; not allowed; not acceptable; outtake; blooper; retake

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to make an example of; to make a victim of; to hold up somebody (something) to ridicule; to pierce with a spear

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