half-pint
cramped, dinky, exiguous, limited, little, petite, piddling, poky, puny, short, slight, small ,
make a killing - be caught short, be short, bear the palm, belong, break the bank, bucket, capitalize on, capture, carry, carry away, carry it, carry off, carry the day, cash in on, clean up,
cockleshell - boat, canoe, cruiser, ferry, scallop, shell ,
no place higher - acme, apex, apogee, brow, cap, climax, cloud nine, crest, crown, culmination, edge, extremity, heaven, height, high noon,
workhorse - beast of burden, bidet, buck, carriage horse, cart horse, cavalry horse, draft horse, dray horse, driving horse, drudge, fag, fill horse, filler, galley slave, greasy grind,
haemorrhoids - abscess, blister, boil, bunion, canker, carbuncle, chancre, chilblain, felon, fester, festering, gathering, lesion, pile, pimple,
feel ill - ail, complain, labour under, suffer ,
opacity - abstruseness, ambiguity, amorphousness, asininity, boorishness, cloddishness, cloudiness, crassness, crudeness, dark, darkness, denseness, density, dimness, doltishness,
third-force - apathetic, autonomous, centrist, even, free-wheeling, impartial, independent, indifferent, individualistic, midway, moderate, neuter, neutral, non-aligned, non-partisan,
cast off - abandon, abandoned, abrupt, abstract, adrift, afloat, alienate, aweigh, break ground, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast loose, cast out, castaway,
seafaring - boating, canoeing, circumnavigation, coasting, cruising, marine, maritime, nautical, naval, navigability, navigating, navigation, navigational, ocean-going, oceanic,
cockleshell - boat, canoe, cruiser, ferry, scallop, shell ,
no place higher - acme, apex, apogee, brow, cap, climax, cloud nine, crest, crown, culmination, edge, extremity, heaven, height, high noon,
workhorse - beast of burden, bidet, buck, carriage horse, cart horse, cavalry horse, draft horse, dray horse, driving horse, drudge, fag, fill horse, filler, galley slave, greasy grind,
haemorrhoids - abscess, blister, boil, bunion, canker, carbuncle, chancre, chilblain, felon, fester, festering, gathering, lesion, pile, pimple,
feel ill - ail, complain, labour under, suffer ,
opacity - abstruseness, ambiguity, amorphousness, asininity, boorishness, cloddishness, cloudiness, crassness, crudeness, dark, darkness, denseness, density, dimness, doltishness,
third-force - apathetic, autonomous, centrist, even, free-wheeling, impartial, independent, indifferent, individualistic, midway, moderate, neuter, neutral, non-aligned, non-partisan,
cast off - abandon, abandoned, abrupt, abstract, adrift, afloat, alienate, aweigh, break ground, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast loose, cast out, castaway,
seafaring - boating, canoeing, circumnavigation, coasting, cruising, marine, maritime, nautical, naval, navigability, navigating, navigation, navigational, ocean-going, oceanic,