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| have a seat on the commission | hamshackle | hold an inquiry into a case |
| scuffle with an assailant | strike twelve all at once | an inattentive student |
| a struggling novelist | conkers | gurjun |
| conkers | metal | tetrarch |
| another pair of shoes | sell an idea to the public | tetrarch |
| as white as a ghost | be like a waxen image | try every means imaginable |
| read sb. a sermon | grist | to reach an identity of views |
| gregorian | straighten up your room | griff |
| pentathlon | thrill | a sensuous painting |
| grogram | immortal hand | commensurable |
| In every beginning think of the end. | tercet | an incontrovertible evidence |
| have a bee in one's bonnet | limburger | fall into a good berth |
| as dumb as a wooden Indian | a biannual meeting | an indescribable sensation |
| an inextirpable disease | a week of incessant rains | An inch is as good as an ell. |
| condescend | pilgrim | companion |
| megadeath | pethidine | phaeton |
| make sb. a proposition (=make a proposition to sb.) | terrace | md |
| maximus | one's former self | piranha |
| dal segno | commissioner | S-comes first. |
| at the first jet | the best of the bunch | homey |
| jitney dance | cisalpine | to jeer at a defeated enemy |
| prednisone | jelly roll | dum-dumbullet |
| combine milk and water | speller | cipolin |
| a fraction of a second | That's what you say. | spiller |
| fling [throw] away the scabbard | spidery | a jolly good time |
| Isthmian Games | a narrow brush with death | a paint in fresco |
| civilization | a swinging party | a brilliant artist |
| cut a piece off the loaf | homebody | outsit another guest |
| cisalpine | buck and wing (= buck dance) | above [below, beneath, under] the salt |
| sitting | chicago | calumet of peace (=pipe of peace) |
| sitting | chickweed | A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. |
| hornpipe | skein | chianti |
| chartula | an event causative of war | shoot questions at sb. |
| singleton | sister | privileged |
| singleton | horizontal | sabbath-day's journey |
| solidus | chloroquine | So you say! |
| a burly-set young man | spackle | sour |
| christies | slater | a foul manuscript |
| skye | to make up a four for cards | sleuth |
| snowdrift | a coach and four | slum |
| sure | be in sb.'s boots | poodle |
| cloth | beware of a man of one book | pope |
| grave as an owl | an insufferable person | posse |
| postilion | support an actor | the superciliary woodpecker |
| sumatra | population | pot |
| polysynthesism | at sb.'s insistent request | harmonist |
| put another blanket on the bed | takeoff | polyphone |
| gain over | be instrumental to a purpose | You cannot flay the same ox twice. |
| pompon | a blot on one's character | an irritating habit |
| the froth on a glass of beer | an irredeemable criminal | a fine sweep of country |
| have one's bread buttered for life | claque | statuesque |
| sweeten an offer | state | a blanket lying over a bed |
| a brilliant scientist | overact a part | clarendon |
| heterography | strip | survivable accidents |
| claro | laurustinus | pot |
| give back with interest | strain | Texas brag |
| sweep one's hand across | a brave fireman | Scout around for a meal |
| overhead charges [expenses] | swept and garnished | elizabethan |
| didst | monochromatic | black Monday |
| lindane | unperson | chain smoke |
| extorte money from a woman | unsized | unitize |
| etruria | dell | monatomic |
| stormy petrel | a beautiful silk gown | descended |
| fall on stony ground | yigencai | play one's hand for all there's in it |
| a building of portentous size | foster integration with the global economy | so far, so good |
| venturi | monogamist | mop the ground with sb. |
| absolute pair | vantage | |