avocation



hobby-horse, interest, pastime, pursuit, sideline ,

   standard operating procedure - drill, form, mode, procedure, rule, standing order, technique ,

   derogative - abusive, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, calumnious, catty, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious, defamatory, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive, derisory, derogatory,

   wasted - ablated, arid, atrophied, attenuated, bankrupt, barren, blasted, blighted, brittle, broken, burned-out, burnt up, by the board, cadaverous, celibate,

   in reserve - about to be, already in sight, approaching, aside, at hand, back, brewing, by, close, close at hand, coming, forthcoming, future, gathering, going to happen,

   credits - box office, commission, credit, dividend, earnings, gains, gate, get, gross, gross income, income, intake, make, net, net income,

   commit a crime - break the law, infringe, transgress, trespass, violate ,

   have way upon - embark, put off, sail, shove off ,

   skulk - army, bunch, clock watcher, colony, couch, cower, creep, cringe, crouch, dodge, dog it, drift, drive, drove, duck,

   fortune-teller - Cassandra, Druid, astrologer, augur, crystal gazer, diviner, magician, oracle, predictor, prognosticator, prophet, prophet of doom, psychic, seer, soothsayer ,

   horse chestnut - ebony, nut, oak, tree ,