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| Christian unity | political unity | pass an uneasy night, ie sleep badly |
| Unitarian | unfailingly | top secret |
| a `toilet set | a vase of ox-eye daisies | tonic water |
| tombola | for eight hours on the trot | a boat-load of survivors |
| coach-loads of tourists | acarton of yoghurt | the first millennium AD |
| a worsted suit | one-horse | yank out a tooth |
| first year students | it's freezing outside. | midriff |
| open up a new restaurant | a well-matched couple | a book of humorous verses |
| teaching one-to-one | inconsistent with an earlier statement | wire-cutter |
| winkle-picker | fitful bursts of energy | protective |
| attend a good school | a bunch of red roses | hook a large fish |
| as much as a drinking-glass will hold | series of connected things | glance one's eye over the newspaper |
| a pair of spectacles with gold rims | glance round a room | a packet of frozen peas |
| glance down a list of names | quantity of fish caught in a net at one time | shorts |
| prune | a box of chocolates | from the wrong side of the tracks =>wrong. the other side of the `coin the opposite or contrasting aspect of a matter |
| more than 150 years | look on a plan with favour, ie approve of it | (to sow discord by) double-talk |
| 4 is an exponential expression. 24 | one China policy | a goodish pair of shoes |
| a bit of scrag | heed a warning | to enjoy the benefit or reward all one's life |
| the entertainment of a group of foreign visitors | having a specified distance from the base to the top | indulge in histrionics |
| execute a murderer | a gloomy day, ie with dark clouds and dull light | scintilla |
| thank sb profusely | forward a shipment of gloves | at the far end of the street |
| a round of drinks, ie one for each person in a group | enter upon a new career | go up the hill in first gear |
| showery | win by three goals to one | heal a quarrel |
| a pair of rubber gloves | Act I Sc IV | March 21 |
| achieve greatness in one's lifetime | sow a row of seeds | reach York by one o'clock |
| a record | request | long series of rises and falls |
| pick up a handful of sand | a woman's charms, ie her beauty or attractive manner | engage a new secretary |
| a genuine pearl | a generous helping of potatoes | a pound of garlic sausage |
| a gulp of cold milk | 50p isn't worth quibbling about. 50 | top rank, ie one of the very best |
| in the event of an accident | quarter | adj slightly better than average |
| shot a 75 in the first round | to go for a gallop | the final chapter of a book |
| at one fell swoop in a single deadly action | with a flounce of the head | all of a flutter |
| an attempt at a rescue | by the next post | furbish up an antique sword |
| one's better self, ie one's generous qualities | group of brilliantly talented people | hogget |
| hogget | hendecasyllable | hemianopia |
| historicism | hourly | hour |
| hollowing | hour | homocentric |
| hogtie | hackbut | battalion |
| belial | beltane | benzedrine |
| batch | basalt | basilisk |
| basket | biannual | blockbuster |
| bloodhound | grumous | bloodhound |
| biennial | gumdrop | blackjack |
| amontillado | amorphous | harmonica |
| angelica | angle | announcement |
| apartment | heeler | hay |
| hawkweed | haul | arabesque |
| balsa | baneberry | barbaric |
| barbell | baroscope | bartlett |
| arcadia | ascot | avon |
| baccarat | baking | balbriggan |
| amounting to the same thing | jewelweed | jelly |
| jaunting | to happen repeatedly | jimsonweed |
| intramural | intramural | intone |
| intertwined | jacobean | irregular |
| irredentist | irredentist | lawrencium |
| laurustinus | laterality | laterality |
| latakia | lancer | kylie |
| knockabout | leatherback | localize |
| linable | licking | leghorn |
| kite | jungle | jumper |
| kingdom | kingbird | killdeer |
| keg | kava | intertangle |
| sedentary | pair | pair |
| guinea | summer | burning |
| Surprise | Pork-pieces | poem |
| bridge | end | |