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Summary

Ruler, potentate, monarch

Subject to, liable, susceptible to

Irrevocable

Curable

Mortal

To return like for like

To welcome s.o. or s.th.

Divisibility

Damned bastard! (lit. may God fight him!)

Leading thinkers

Flamethrower

Minesweeper

Gunboat

Motorboat

Lifeboat

Middle of the road

To compare two things, draw a parallel

The gentle reader

To die a thousand deaths

To go through the worst, be exposed to the greatest hardships

To compare two things

Hard-hearted, callous, pitiless, cruel

Helpless, impotent, parsimonious, niggardly

Chaste, demure, modest (of a woman)

Mortal blow, catastrophe

Everybody, all people (lit. the distant one and the near one)

Brigand, waylayer, highway robber

To interrupt s.o., cut s.o. short, cut in on s.o.’s talk

Riverbed

Slacker, inactive, idle

Capital of the country

General rule

To motion with the head, signal, beckon

He said in a voice full of mercy . . .

Among other things, he said . . .

To mention casually, say among other things

He said what he had to say, he had his say

He said with a smile

Chunk of cheese

Sugar loaf

Bar of soap

Proof had been furnished for

Truth became or was manifest

To go to

To consist in, be founded on, be based, to carry out, execute, perform

To assume the burdens of government

To meet one’s obligations

To defray the costs, pay the expenses

To do one’s duty

To provide for s.o.’s needs, stand by s.o. in time of need

To play a part

To take care of s.o., look after s.o., take s.o. under one’s wing

To keep one’s word

To be built on, to manage, tend, guard

To become fully effective, be in full progress, be in full swing

To rise or turn against s.o.

To stand up to s.o., against s.o.

To resist, oppose, defy s.o.

To rise in honour of s.o.

To replace s.o., substitute for s.o., take s.o.’s place, replace s.th.

To take the place of s.th. with s.o.

To be in a state of great anxiety, be seriously upset, be very agitated

To begin to do s.th.

The war was or became violent, war broke out

Time of prayer has come

To get excited, get angry, become furious, all hell broke loose in it