to use (a tool, method, etc.); to make use of; to put to use ; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to handle; to manage; to manipulate ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend; to consume ; to use (language); to speak
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be in a fix; to be at a loss; to be stumped; to be embarrassed ; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be annoyed ; to be badly off; to be hard up; to be in straitened circumstances
discerning eye; an eye (for something); good judgement ; public eye; (in) the eyes of others; people watching; public opinion ; appearance; sight; impression ; point of view; way of looking (at)
to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to grant; to confer; to present; to award ; to provide; to afford; to offer; to supply ; to assign ; to cause ; to pass (a variable to a function)
no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken ; hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless ; cannot; must not; not allowed ; neutral point; intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game ; no!; stop!
continuously; the whole time; all the way; throughout ; much (more); (by) far; far and away; a lot; a great deal ; far (away); long (ago, before, after) ; straight; directly
in one go; in one gulp; in one breath; without stopping; without pausing; without a rest; in one sitting; at a stretch ; suddenly; all of a sudden; all at once
land mine ; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic; taboo topic; trigger ; something that seems fine at first but turns out to be very bad (e.g. product, business); booby trap; pitfall
to step on; to tread on; to trample on ; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to visit ; to experience; to undergo ; to follow (rules, principles, etc.); to go through (e.g. formalities); to complete ; to estimate; to guess; to judge; to value; to appraise ; to rhyme ; to succeed to (e.g. the throne)
relation; relationship; connection ; participation; involvement; concern ; influence; effect ; sexual relations; sexual relationship ; related to; connected to
unreasonable; unnatural; unjustifiable ; impossible ; forcible; forced; compulsory ; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate ; to work too hard; to try too hard ; no way; not a chance; never; dream on ; irrational
speciality; specialty; special subject of study; area of expertise; (one's) field; (one's) major ; sole interest; single focus; concentrating exclusively on; doing exclusively; sticking to
to finish; to end; to be completed ; to merely result in something less severe than expected ; to feel at ease ; to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry