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Summary

It is too late

It is (too) late

He missed the opportunity

Stimulating the appetite, appetising

He missed the train

It escaped him that, he omitted, failed or forgot to, he failed to see that, he overlooked the fact that . . .

He was reputed to be a holy man

Pitch black, jet-black

There he beheld before him, there stood before him . . .

A master of, excelling or outstanding in

Tall and slender

Interval (time)

To give up the ghost

To give up the ghost, die

To die

To compare two things in order to determine which deserves preference

To expire, die, give up the ghost

This amount was many times as much as his salary

Unmannered, uneducated

Unconscious, insensible, senseless

Unscrupulous

Dumbfounded speech

In that case it’s all right

To weaken s.o.

To weaken s.o., sap s.o.’s strength, discourage, enervate s.o.

Maiden, virgin

Opening of a credit

To tell fortunes

To stimulate the appetite

(S.th.) got under way, was begun

To open negotiations

To open up a new way, a new possibility

To open one’s eyes wide, stare wide-eyed

To open one’s mouth in order to say s.th., prepare to say s.th.

Interim period, interim stage, stage of transition

Morning rush hour

To make s.o. see his way clear, cause s.o. to see things in their true light

A ruse came to his mind

To cut off, destroy, wipe out, eradicate, to decimate, thin the ranks of (esp. said of a disease)

To straddle

He was stricken by the death of his son

And that’s all, and no more, only

Singly, one by one, one after the other

For a short time, briefly

To force one’s will on s.o.

To impose a blockade

To assume for the sake of argument, propose as a basis for discussion, assume hypothetically

He missed the thing, lost it

To collect one’s thoughts

Divide and conquer!

To fabricate, or invent, a lie

Unique of its kind

To open or pave the way for s.o. or s.th.

To make room for s.o. or s.th., give s.o. or s.th. free play or free scope, to open up an opportunity for s.o.