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| foremost | conflicting | concurrence | fourth |
| foursome | fitful | No man is wise at all times. | A word spoken is past recalling. |
| not much | dishful | day | of or for one person |
| barrel | a mere bagatelle | consensus | disposable |
| tangle | distinctive | dump | once a year |
| on the average | not a pin to choose between them | next | monoculture |
| serial | monotheist | same here | within a hair of |
| serial | tern | another kettle of fish | Q-so |
| in a sense/way | promiscuous | a stitch of | a plate of food |
| a lump of sugar | twosome | twosome | mansion |
| threesome | unanimity | Type I error | not a spark of |
| Pleione | in general | be in harmony with | tumbler |
| cast (in) one's lot with [throw in one's lot with] | combined | percent | in one |
| July 1 | Ivan I (the Money bag) | Philippe Ier | Eudes I |
| Simeon (the Proud) | one-party dictatorship | be as broad as(it is) long | equation with one unknown quantity |
| I am sorry I cannot go into details | early on | write to sb's face and get a first | one trouble affer another |
| in the intervals | rifle | be one up on | (as) black as ink |
| head of the household | at all seasons | heavy-at-one-end,a desk with a cupboardor drawers at one end | do the splits |
| rest for a short spell | a flight of steps | apartment | suit |
| stamps | a pair of steps | on impulse suddenly and without previous thinking or planning | stirrup |
| stilt | a pile of stones | an ,ice-cold `drink | a piece of honeycomb |
| make a splurge | lock of hair | sun-glasses | sock |
| a pair of jodhpurs | sprinkle | spat | spur |
| blind in one eye | spadeful | take soundings | a pair of `shoe-laces |
| with a stroke of the pen | a length of hose | amount this can hold | a pair of spikes |
| Kleenex | sponge a dinner | a strip of paper | one square metre, ie an area equal to that of a square with sides that are each one metre in length |
| equal in strength | squaddie | a fit of spleen | a flight of geese |
| with a flop | fend off a blow | a film of dust | a ball of knitting wool |
| a box of tissues | expand uni- Community | tin foil | make a united effort |
| group of eight people | trot | tweezers | a speck of dust |
| win a trick, ie win a round | wheat | wager | weakly |
| tongs | varnish | an area of waste ground | temporize |
| have a tooth out, ie extracted by a dentist | half the men | a slice of ham | tea |
| a load of gravel | of grass | toothy | row of bushes, etc forming a hedge |
| a range of hills | wet with sweat | a pair of headphones | sweet |
| a pair of gaiters | spend a year in gaol | a herd of gazelle | noisy outburst |
| either of the two parts divided in this way | a fresh piece of paper | any one of these arrangements | a bottle of scent |
| have a good scoff | amount contained in this | a parting kiss | a handful of grass seed |
| a second helping of soup | hurried kiss | pyjamas | ruffian |
| have a round of cards | a sack of candies | rig-out | ready-made |
| reindeer | a vegetable plot | poke | a pair of scales |
| a `strawberry plant | pipe of a certain length | same | a painting of huge proportions |
| sackful | salts | a shower of spray | lump |
| mail | a box of matches | mince | May |
| lie-down | a bunch of lilac | one hundred smackers | one section of a journey |
| a trouser leg | remain single | a lucky break, ie a piece of good fortune | sidelong |
| a litter of puppies | lip | lodging | sky |
| be killed outright by a single gunshot | on this occasion | a tea set, ie teapot, cups, saucers, etc | a pack of lies |
| an ancient monument | a bottle of lemonade | a pint of milk | mortality |
| net | to spit phlegm | to be prepared to go to war (unless demand is met) | really worth a try |
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