workmanship; craftsmanship; grades; results; quality (e.g. of a crop); dealings
amount sold; sales; proceeds; takings; turnover
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
previous work; preceding work; first crop grown in a double-cropped field; preceding crop
turning a comic, novel, etc. into an animated movie or TV series; making an animated version
matter of time; question of time
great; excellent; very troublesome; awful; tiring; tough
flat; level; flat (e.g. in 10 seconds flat); exactly; flat; flat
easily mixed up (e.g. similar words); easily mistaken; confusingly similar; misleading; equivocal; ambiguous
public name; announcing publicly; nominal
to sell (well); to be well known; to be popular; to be famous
to get tired; to tire; to become worn out (of a well-used object); (arch.) to starve
alone; by oneself; on one's own
somehow; for some reason; without knowing why
to fire oneself up; to give it one's all; to get psyched; to fire someone up (with scolding, corporal punishment, etc.); to rouse
don't you think?; indicates question
odds and ends; all; every
thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words
to peek (through a keyhole, gap, etc.); to look down into (a ravine, etc.); to peek into (a shop, bookstore, etc.); to sneak a look at; to take a quick look at; to peep (through a telescope, microscope, etc.); to stick out (a scarf from a collar, etc.)
to perceive; to grasp (the situation)
to pile up; to stack up; to accumulate
to charm; to attract; to fascinate; to entice
charm; fascination; glamour; glamor; attraction; appeal
number one; first; best; most; game; round
web site; website; web page; webpage; home page; homepage
to hold back others from achieving success; to stand in the way of; to sabotage
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
(relating to) gender; sex; sexual
the ways of the world; human nature
to take into account; to bear in mind; to consider; to learn from; to take warning from
use; adoption; acceptance; appointment; employment; engagement
showy; loud; gay; flashy; gaudy
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
finishing blow; coup de grâce
vacantly; blankly; openmouthed; with one's mouth wide-open; with a whack; with a thump
how should I put it?; what shall I say?; well, you know; like
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
to kill; to slay; to suppress; to block; to suppress (a voice, feelings, etc.); to hold back
preface; introduction; lead in (to a joke, question, etc.); lead up; payment in advance (by bank transfer); swinging (one's body) forward